Price Fixing of Chocolate?! Bastards!

Thanks to allanh for pointing out to me this heinous act.

Price Fixing of Chocolate?! Bastards!

Thanks to allanh for pointing out to me this heinous act.

Surprise!

I just blew a glass of water across my desk.

Things are very quiet in my cube right now. We're lightly staffed as folks are taking their accumulated use-it-or-lose-it vacation time; because of month-end financial processes, those of us who are at work can't do squat on the production systems until next week anyway.

I've already prepped my calling material for tonight's square dance gig --and cleaned up some of my uglier sequences from last Monday's-- so I was catching up on reading some square dance newsletters & magazines that have collected in my backpack the past two weeks.

I just finished reading local caller Butch Adams' column on formations in the newsletter of our greater Washington DC dance club association. I flipped the page to this month's crossword puzzle, also written by Butch Adams. The first clue entry in the puzzle is as follows:

Who are Brian Jarvis and Kent Forrester calling for on Dec. 21st?

I think this is the first time my name (or kent4str's) has been mentioned in print in any square dance publication outside of the GCA or IAGSDC --well, at least in something I didn't originally write.

Whee!

PS. The answer is "ZigZaggers".
PPS. I have to clean up my desk now.

Surprise!

I just blew a glass of water across my desk.

Things are very quiet in my cube right now. We're lightly staffed as folks are taking their accumulated use-it-or-lose-it vacation time; because of month-end financial processes, those of us who are at work can't do squat on the production systems until next week anyway.

I've already prepped my calling material for tonight's square dance gig --and cleaned up some of my uglier sequences from last Monday's-- so I was catching up on reading some square dance newsletters & magazines that have collected in my backpack the past two weeks.

I just finished reading local caller Butch Adams' column on formations in the newsletter of our greater Washington DC dance club association. I flipped the page to this month's crossword puzzle, also written by Butch Adams. The first clue entry in the puzzle is as follows:

Who are Brian Jarvis and Kent Forrester calling for on Dec. 21st?

I think this is the first time my name (or kent4str's) has been mentioned in print in any square dance publication outside of the GCA or IAGSDC --well, at least in something I didn't originally write.

Whee!

PS. The answer is "ZigZaggers".
PPS. I have to clean up my desk now.

In Today's Propaganda...

My dear Gov't of Canada sent me an e-mail earlier today spouting off that Canada is now #4 in the UN's Human Development Index. The top ten best countries in to live are:
1 Iceland
2 Norway
3 Australia
4 Canada
5 Ireland
6 Sweden
7 Switzerland
8 Japan
9 Netherlands
10 France

The US is #12.

The bottom ten are:
168 Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
169 Ethiopia
170 Chad
171 Central African Republic
172 Mozambique
173 Mali
174 Niger
175 Guinea-Bissau
176 Burkina Faso
177 Sierra Leone

In Today's Propaganda...

My dear Gov't of Canada sent me an e-mail earlier today spouting off that Canada is now #4 in the UN's Human Development Index. The top ten best countries in to live are:
1 Iceland
2 Norway
3 Australia
4 Canada
5 Ireland
6 Sweden
7 Switzerland
8 Japan
9 Netherlands
10 France

The US is #12.

The bottom ten are:
168 Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
169 Ethiopia
170 Chad
171 Central African Republic
172 Mozambique
173 Mali
174 Niger
175 Guinea-Bissau
176 Burkina Faso
177 Sierra Leone