The American Equivalent of 'Which Was Nice'

This week, another little part of my Britishness fell away. The dressing gown from British Home Stores that I’ve had for an indeterminate amount of years (probably at least 15), described by Tammy as “looking a bit ratty when I first met you,” has been replaced with a brand new gown. From L.L. Bean. You honestly can’t get more “middle class liberal American dad” than that. I might as well just tear up my British passport.¹

One thing I didn’t mention about Thanksgiving last week is that it is also Lucidwork’s busiest time of the year. We power the search behind some surprising big brands, and my goodness, did we facilitate a lot of sales over the sale period. I probably shouldn’t yet put a figure on it, but we’d be in with a shot at a cabinet position in the next administration if it was all ours. I had somewhat forgotten just how much I like being involved with search — sure it’s not saving the planet, but the idea of actually making the Internet navigable and giving you what you want to find? It ties back to me getting onto the net back in 1997 and finding all the tricks to make Infoseek and AltaVista produce good results…and now I’m doing it behind the scenes²

All this and reconnecting with an old university friend? Not a bad week at all, to be honest…