"I guess your liver must be taking a bit of a beating here in London?" "Oh, no, we drink far more in San Francisco. This is actually a bit of a break for me." "Really? Wow. It's hard to imagine a worse drinking culture than London's." "It's not worse." "But you said you drink more?" "Yeah. Plus like the drinks are cheaper, and they give them to you in bigger servings, and the bars don't close ...

"What happened?" "We got burgled." "WHAT?!? What's been taken?" "Sophie's laptop. Mark's laptop. Nothing else." "My stereo?" "Nope." "The DVD player?" "No." "Nothing else?" "Just two laptops. They even left digital video cameras that were just....sitting out in the open. It's super-wierd." "Was it forced entry? What happened?" "No, nothing forced, just...gone. We live on the third floor ...