It's Dennis, not Charlie!

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I was just taking a look at the statistics for my website. I was viewing the search phrases people used this month to find my pages. I see that on a day in September someone was looking for "Charlie Brown playground, Monterey CA"

Close. Very close. I assume they found the correct name once they got here.

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