The Adventures of Goldilocks and Her Bears

Actual conversation at our house:

Me: Am I the only one who reads b-day as 'bidet'?
Him: No. No, you're not.
Me: Thank goodness.

Holden emailed us this morning to say that he had a back spasm. I wrote back that I was sorry that he was spastic. It excited me to get to use the work "spastic" in context.

I saw a truck made by Western Truck Fab today. Their logo is an oval with WTF written in it.  I am amused.

With the big events happening at work over the weekend and lots of meetings about them today, I didn't expect the first contender for quote of the day to come from the radio.

Thanks, NPR, for offering this gem:

"I want to make a comparison in an analogous fashion..."

I took last night to just relax and read. Yay! 

I managed to read, but David Weber managed to tick me off a bit with one plot point. (Well, with more than one thing, mostly because he seems to have written the past few books without an editor and he desperately needs one to cut most of his garbage.)

The heroine gets preganat and doesn't figure it out. Not even a suspicion. I have see this too many times and I just don't buy it. No, nay, never. Any woman that I have met who has had sex and knows anything about biology (which this character does), will have the "what if?" thought periodically, combined with a reaction that is somewhere between horified and ecstatic. Especially if she is showing symptoms.

Another peeve: why do all pregnant women in books seem to have morning sickness. This is way above the statistical norm. I mean really. Do authors have to torment their characters because they don't know any other way to show that a woman is pregnant? Read a biology book, people. And add morning sickness to having had sex, and why is she surprised she's pregnant? The character isn't stupid, right? She may not want to be pregnant, but she should be able to figure it out.

I don't buy the scenario and I've seen it often enough that I have gotten really tired of it. 

Bad author, bad, bad, bad.

Since someone asked... 

Yes, I know what it sounds like. Tee hee. 

Helblonde means light blonde hair in german.

Hel = light in color
Blonde = yellow hair

It is contrasted by dunkelblonde (dunkel = dark), dark blonde hair.

Sadly, the more time I spend working indoors the more dunkelblonde I get.

I get copied on a lot of emails.  A lot of emails. Usually at the end of a long string of replies and forwards.
Yesterday, as I was reading through a long email thread, I came across this email. In full, it read:

Urgent
Christ
Urgent

Unfortunately, when I cracked up, my cube mate didn't think that was nearly as funny as I think it is, just because it was addressed to Christi.

What do you think when you read this BBC news headline?

'Perfectionism' Bowel Pain Link

My first thought: there's no big surprise here. Perfectionism is a pain in the, er, bowel.