Donna and I recently took a long weekend to visit our son Jack and his wife Erin in southern California. Some takeaways: Jack’s and Erin’s friends are awesome . One night we hung out and then went bar-hopping with Jon, Luis, Eric, Jaqueline, Amy, Ian. What smart, interesting and good people they are. We talked about the future of social media, politics, travel, family. It’s heartening to know that Jack has surrounded himself with such quality people. Klondike and Sundae, on the other hand, are stupid . When we first arrived, the American Eskimos greeted us as if we were ill-intentioned intruders, the little white fluffballs trying to be intimidating. After a few minutes we would convince them that we were benign and they would calm down and befriend and be-cuddle us, until we left the room for five minutes and returned, at which point their little dog brains forgot they had met us and barked and snarled at us all over again. This went on for the first couple days until either