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A business dinner in Sydney, New South Wales

These guys loved hearing stories about setting up new offices and the personnel problems/challenges that come along with them. And we talked about a few other things too. After I took a photo of Michael in his plastic surgical gown used to eat crab legs in, we took this photo of a really happy group of diners.

It's going to be a lot of fun marketing ETFs with these guys!

Storm Watch

Roger and I had planned to golf. But Typhoon #4 decided to march up the coast and destroyed all plans. Instead we hung out at his beach house in Iritahama, cooked, drank, went to a local beach scene hip hop/Hawaiian party at the Spice Dog restaurant and checked out the other beaches' waves.

Mom gets her 15 minutes a second time

The public tv network in Minneapolis/St. Paul is looking back at their history and trying to recreate what has taken place over the past 50 years. They found my mother who hosted a live half hour homemaking program weekly from 1960 to 1965 and had her on for an interview (taped). Here's a still of Mom talking about her experience doing "Tea at Three with Vivian Hoff"

Culinary delight in Santa Monica

Anton and I found a great seafood restaurant in Santa Monica after getting back to LA from Rancho Cucamonga and Menifee. All the sun had turned my face a bright red, and the seafood penne was wonderful! Nice photo, Anton!

www.enterprisefishco.com

Golf in Rancho Cucamonga

Besides hustling around the schools, I made a cunning plan to go golfing in the US. I managed to get out on the Highland Park course in St. Paul with my high school buddy Bill Pollnow on the 1st of July and on the 7th (7/7/7) I played Empire Lakes with Anton, Josh Neuman and his girlfriend Victoria. We had a great day - hot, but dry, and loads of fun driving our carts around, looking in the rough for lost balls and teaching Josh and Victoria Japanese slang.

Tom enjoying a Southern California moment

Tom came down to LA to enjoy the sunshine, have a few drinks with me and sample the Mexican food. Nothing new here!

Ha!

We also planned a Hoff/Knapp/Edwards/Haddock trip to Korea WITHOUT wives!

Anton goes on a college hunt

Anton is visiting the U of M, Macalester, St. Olaf, UCLA, Pepperdine and USC this week. He is asking about how these colleges deal with the IB and is "declaring" an interest in economics and math/physics. St. Olaf bought us lunch. Macalester and St. Olaf gave him personal interviews.

Here is a shot of Anton at Pepperdine.

Elle en veux

Someday Gronk will write a book about the yellow fire plug who changes into a young lady the way Pinocchio became a boy. Here is my picture of the yellow fire plug before she gets named, anthropomorphized and attends the debutante ball.