Those Ariana Huffington SUV and terrorism ads are very funny. I almost bought a hybrid car in 2000 when I needed to buy a new car, but I was wary. The Honda Insight I was told, needs to be plugged into a socket to get power and I don't have a garage so the car didn't make any sense for me. The Toyota Prius looked okay, but you can't get it with a sunroof, and I have to have a sunroof on my car. A sunroof is so essential to my driving life, since I don't like wind blowing on my face.

My Golf is an automatic and it has 2.0 litre engine (a big engine), so the gas mileage is so-so. I get 22-24 mpg for city driving, which is what I mostly drive, and about 30+ for freeway driving. I went down to San Luis Obispo from San Francisco one weekend, and made it there driving on 101 on half a tank of gas one way. The mileage when I drive long distances in my car is amazing! It's city driving that sucks. If a drove a stick, I'd probably have better gas mileage.

Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing; / Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; / So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, / Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882)

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The ratings for "Joe Millionaire" are out, and it was an incredible success. The beginning was boring, but I loved it. I totally loved it! I love the catiness of the women; I love the insecurity of the I think incredibly unattractive cro-magnon bachelor man, and I love the corny as all heck butler. This is so much interesting than that frothy and idiotic Sex and the City. Real life is so much more interesting than fiction.

I heard an interview with Katy, one of the women who was rejected on the first night, and she said that all the women received an all expenses paid vacation in Paris for a month, and it was totally worth it for the free trip. I mean, I think I'd get on the show for a free one month trip to Paris, but I've also been fantasizing on going on "Love Connection" for years. Remember that old TV dating show?

I'm writing a novel on women's power games, and this show is like a bonanza of research material for me for how competitive women really are and how they behave. I got a big taste of bitchy, nasty competitiveness women at my last job, but that was on the career business level. I think how women play high stakes power games in corporations is similar to how they play power games with men, and it will be interesting to see if I'm right. People say men are nasty power game players, and they're right, but women aren't that far behind. Men at least don't seem to take the business stuff personally, whereas the women I've had to deal with were totally scary vicioius people. I never felt fear going up against a man in a business meeting, but I've learned to become very wary of women, especially women VPs or women who would kill to be VPs. And believe me, they would literally kill to be VPs.