On Monday, we spent the day in the LA area. We had to go to exchange Jean’s iPhone because the screen was acting funny. On the drive to LA on Sunday, Jean’s hat flew out of the car, lost forever. So another errand was to find a hat. Monday evening we had dinner with Rob Cutietta and his wife, Mary Beth. Rob is the dean of the USC Thornton School of Music and we’ve been friends for over seven years, having met at a Seven Springs Group (the nation's 11 top music schools) annual meeting in January of 2003. One of Rob’s hobbies is playing with model trains. He has an elaborate setup in the attic of his home in Pasadena.