Everyday in the morning on her way to the office you can see her as she catches the train.

Most of the little photos on Maria's home page have been restored. There are still a few missing -- we add another Maria snapshot every year -- but it's the first constructive result of the recovery process.

Trans-Atlantic Chocolate Exchange? frostfox, you get first dibs -- I have a stack of big chocolate bars. One of them claims to be a Cadbury Dairy Milk bar, 127g. (I have the large 4.5 or 5.0 oz - 127 or 141 g - size of "Cadbury Dairy Milk", "Cadbury Caramello", Hershey's Milk Chocolate, Hershey's Special Dark, and one other I'll get to in just a moment.)

I'd like to send these to a Brit friend who will turn around and ship me an equivalent amount of local chocolate -- Cadbury, and if Nestle/Rountree is still manufactured in England some of those products. (We'll talk about that -- the flavored Kit Kat, esp. the mint and orange, were a big hit when I brought them into the office.)

( Why? For a taste test... )

Local note: Ralphs has them for a good price right now, which is partly what inspired me.

EDIT: Bought the other two "Cadbury" bars - the Roast Almond and the "Fruit & Nut" (Raisin & Almond) bars. So the chocolate is up to 917 g now.