The Good Doctor resides in Santa Clara (and so do I). That's in the flats of the South Bay, not in the Santa Cruz mountains. But not far away.

Frogprince gets the prize on this thread--brilliant!

My favorite circumlocution:

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to be otherwise."

(And the source of the quote is...?)

Aloha,
Mark

(You don't let go of the islands that easily--even if it's hard to find fresh Hanalei poi here.)