I spent a good ten minutes marshalling my thoughts to write at least a semi-interesting post about the past couple of days but every time I start typing I can't seem to string six words together into a coherent sentence. To put it simply, sometime Wednesday morning the sick-to-my-head feeling turned into a full-blown cold that's had me running at reduced capacity all week. When you factor in running around to multiple sites for multiple meetings for work, I haven't had much energy left after the fact. Since then my days were fueled with Sudafed PE and espresso and my …

Yeah, more restaurant reviews. I've got a lot going on right now, and this is all I really have time for right now. Hopefully I'll have time to write something more interesting in the next couple of days.

Okay. First up, the Rearn Thai Restaurant (7910 Bonhomme Avenue; Clayton, MO; 63105; phone 314-725-8870; fax 314-725-8809). It's a fairly good Thai restaurant a stone's throw from the hotel I'm staying at, and by fairly good I mean bring one or two friends, order two dishes and an appetizer, and you'll eat well, and not forget soon how good the food is …

Fire fighters in central London were called out in full hazmat gear when they received a report that a) something was on fire, and b) it was causing knocking down everyone that was within range of the cloud. Knocking down as in, "couldn't breathe, couldn't see, in lots of pain."

At 1900 local time they had pinpointed the location (the Thai Cottage Restaurant) and the source of the noxious smoke: A cooking pot containing about nine pounds of nam prik pao, which is a Thai dipping sauce made up of super-hot chili peppers that are fried until they are burned …