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Since the street light in the alley behind our house died a couple of weeks back we've been getting a pretty clear view of the stars in the morning. As we were heading out today we noticed a pretty bright planet that's been hanging above the horizon in the mornings.  We debated over whether it was Jupiter or Venus. I was leaning toward the latter, but atara was pretty sure that it was the former. Somewhat later the following email exchange occurred...

From:  [atara]
Sent:  Monday, September 27, 2004 07:51
To:    [plonq]
Subject:  I was right!

Hah!

That bright planet in the south east is Jupiter. They were talking about it on the radio. :)


From:  [plonq]
Sent:  Monday, September 27, 2004 7:53 AM
To:    [atara]
Subject:  RE: I was right!

So does being right about which planet it was put you in a jovial mood? =)


From:  [atara]
Sent:  Monday, September 27, 2004 07:56
To:    [plonq]
Subject:  I was right!

Not really... but it does make me less saturnine.


From:  [plonq]
Sent:  Monday, September 27, 2004 7:58 AM
To:    [atara]
Subject:  RE: I was right!

Well hopefully nothing happens that mars your mood today.

From:  [atara]
Sent:  Monday, September 27, 2004 08:01
To:    [plonq]
Subject:  I was right!

Hopefully. I know that my moods have been rather mercurial lately...

My Daily Dyslexia

"I am Dyslexic of Borg.  Your ass will be laminated."

I think I mentioned in an earlier post that they are starting up a women's hockey team in our office.  Last week they started selling bingo cards to raise money for the team, and today they mailed out the first five numbers drawn.  Since I had a few free minutes, I decided to do up a large bingo display on one of our white boards.  I wrote the letters across the top, and filled in columns of numbers below.  Using a different coloured pen I began circling the numbers that had been called.    B12... check.  I19... check.  O69... check.  G46...

Me: WTF?  G only goes up to 45.  What are these people on?
Co-worker: There's a G46 on my card.
Me: [checks his own card] There's one on my card too.  What bizarre variation on bingo are these people running?

I looked back and forth between one of the bingo cards and the white board a couple of times, trying to figure out what kind of numbering scheme they were using when I noticed that at the top of the columns of numbers, in bold block letters I'd written, "B I G N O".

D'oh!

File under "things that don't warrant further thought"

Soooo there I am, answering the call of nature when I hear a strange sound coming from the stall next to mine.

It's so out of place that it takes me a few moments to place it.  There's a guy in the next stall, pants down around his ankles, typing away on his notebook computer.  Ew.  I wonder if he was on a wireless network?

"I'm just squeezing those numbers out for you now."