There's nothing like carnitas for breakfast. Somebody's driving around and pitching out little knotted plastic bags with a few pebbles or pieces of gravel inside, plus a slip like a Chinese cookie fortune with "work at home" information. At least a half dozen of these ingenious items in our gutter alone. This is not a form of promotion that I've ever seen before--one person's invention, or a fashion? The primary checking-account statement for November arrived today, having closed on 27 November. It has never taken so long to arrive.