Before I do my standard OMG-it's-been-two-months-since-a-post recap, I just needed to brag a bit.

I'm in Baltimore again. You'd think after traveling this much, I'd have gotten good at packing. Sadly, not so. I have exactly 1 meeting up here, so I packed exactly 1 nice Oxford shirt with French cuffs. Unfortunately, I forgot to pack exactly 1 pair of nice blue Kenneth Cole cufflinks. What's a boy to do?

So at 11 p.m. after flying for 6 hours, I got out and about in Baltimore. As it turns out, the chain of 24 hour cufflink stores appears to only exist in my dreams, so I hit up my standard sources for cheap plastic crap: Target, Wal-Mart (eww) and Wallgreens. Target closed at 10. Wal-Mart doesn't sell cufflinks. Wallgreen's doesn't either. What they do sell, however, is random crap.

After 20 minutes of MacGyver-ish-ness, I procured for myself a pair of needle nose pliers, a picture hanging kit, some super epoxy glue, and a game of Mancala. $26 well spent.

I was able to use the pliers to bend the picture supports into a shape that would keep my cuffs together, and very carefully glued some blue marble pieces from the Mancala set to the ends. 6 hours of drying later, I am in possession of 2 very stylish links, and still have enough Mancala pieces to make a game of it, had it not already been solved.

Red is so passe.