So last week it was Vegas and L.A. Next week L.A. again. I guess Chicago will be coming up in a little while, then Pasadena, and possibly Miami, if I feel like going there during the summer. And while going to the Petaluma satellite office to review the troops isn't exactly hanging with Jack and Neal at a desert truck stop, it's as close as I' m likely to get. The little perks that come with business travel, like the aforementioned hot nuts, which used to be hotter, by the way, or the wave after wave of appetizers followed by a comically minuscule main course of indescribable weirdness that one is supposed to cut with a plastic picnic knife about as useful to a diner as it would be to a terrorist? I have seen the Grand Canyon and Binion's Horseshoe and Topanga Canyon and the spires of the Miracle Mile and the azure beauty of the intracoastal waterway, and next month I plan to take a ride on the Goodyear blimp.