~ not exactly what Marya had in mind? ~

This sounds like an interesting film plot: Moon Palace tells the story of a man who gets a job at a Chinese restaurant where all the tables are bugged, the better to produce well-informed fortune cookies.
- from the Globe and Mail

For you snow lovers, here's my walk yesterday. The temperature was up to 20-below or so by mid-afternoon and I was warmed up after five minutes of a brisk little trot, and then didn't want to come in: