FROM LISA B.: HCFG stands for “Hot Cute Fun Guy.”

Thanks for the suggestion on changing the avatar away from the default. I’ve updated mine to a Welsh Corgi, one of my favorite dog breeds. I have a lot of empathy for any critter that goes through life with big ears and short legs. I think the default avatar on Lisa’s site is Cookie Monster. The rationale behind this choice is confidential. I’ve tried to pry the secret from her, to no avail.

I agree that the fake volcano at the Mirage is worth avoiding if at all possible. I’ve done better science projects with baking soda and vinegar. I also understand your comment about how too generic an avatar could make it hard to tell people apart, possibly jinxing love lives. But there are other far more damaging things. Back on the Las Vegas comment, I bet that my love life would be more crippled if I admitted the Liberace Musuem is my favorite spot in Sin City than if I had a generic avatar.

-HCFG

It looks like the fake volcano at the Mirage.

(The Mirage: Yeah, nothing bad ever happened THERE–no siree!)

Of course, if you leave his avatar like that he will be a “really, really sweet and dear friend who gives [you] that invaluable male perspective” to a lot of females out there, like I am.

I should apologize to all of you for keeping Lisa so busy lately. I’m not much of a TV-holic and Lisa’s remote control is complicated enough to frighten even a tech wizard like me. So we don’t spend too many nights at home with me curled up on the couch, remote in one hand and a beer in the other in stereotypical guy fashion. So Lisa doesn’t have a lot of easy blogging time.

So I’ll just say thanks for all your nice comments and I’ll do my best to motivate her to crank out another post soon, say, on our recent trip to Boston.

And we certainly definitely are kinda sorta halfway maybe possibly somewhat tangentially obliquely theoretically hypothetically happy.

–HCFG