My mind, and the places it goes

(Scene: Tonight we are hosting dinner for two couples and their kids. Tomorrow, one of the couples we are hosting tonight is hosting lunch for all of us. I was in the kitchen finishing up making the chocolate chip cookie bars that are our donation to tomorrow's lunch.)

Me: I think that we should try to get [our dinner guests] to take home tomorrow's dessert.

mabfan: That's a brilliant idea.

Me: You think we should?

mabfan: I think you're brilliant.

Me: You think I'm pretty without any makeup on? You think I'm funny when I tell the punchline wrong?

mabfan: Is that from something?

Tonight, my hypothetical rock group is either called The Redundant Mushrooms or No Redundant Mushrooms. What's your hypothetical rock group called?

A coworker is wondering where this quote comes from:

"Meet me behind the warehouse at midnight...and don't forget the penguin!"

Seen and photographed near the Old State House during my lunchtime walk:

Paul Revere Buys a Hot Dog

(Click to enlarge the photo.)

If I am assiduously avoiding a conversational topic, I am pointedly avoiding it. If I am deciduously avoiding a conversational topic, am I hoping that whoever brought it up will drop it and leave?

(This line of thought partially brought to you by Elmo.)

Today is the US federal holiday observing New Year's Day, so I am off work. Last week, I had the day off in observance of the federal holiday for Christmas. And the week before, we had Friday 23 December off. This means we had three weeks in a row that were four-day weeks. This led someone in a meeting to propose that we always have four-day weeks, and I said there was halachic (Jewish law) basis for this. We say in halacha that three incidents can be considered a chazakah (precident). So three incidents of four-day weeks in a row could, in fact, set precident.

However, I don't believe my company follows halacha when creating the corporate calendar.

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...I felt I should share this:

If Kitties were in Charge of Telecom

(link to the YouTube vid received from a mailing list I'm on)