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[Originally posted last Friday.]<\/p>\n

1. I was a bit irked when I discovered the offspring had not set the alarm properly and was still asleep when I headed downstairs. I provided a poke, only to be informed fifteen seconds later (and quickly validated) that apparently either my<\/i> alarm clock was screwed up, or else I had spontaneously awakened about half an hour early, thinking my alarm had gone off.<\/p>\n

2. The offspring could have been forgiven for being a bit off, since she was in her first auto accident last night, driving home from a swim\/dive meet in unexpectedly snowy\/icy conditions, coming to a gentle (yet still ABS-invoking) stop at a signal, and getting rear-ended by another car whose ABS was not quite effective enough. NO INJURIES. Just a lot of jangled nerves (and a badly damaged rear bumper).<\/p>\n

3. I actually served as announcer at said swim\/dive meet, which was a first for me. It involved a lot less improv than I had been afraid of (which is good, since it was my first swim\/dive meet, and I was unfamiliar with the cadence or what, specifically, I should be announcing). But it was a lot of fun, people asked if I did it for a living (!), and, to relate to No. 2 above, the girl who did the rear-ending was one of the competitors at the meet, and her mom (who drove up about five minutes after I returned to the scene) had been there, and both recognized my voice.<\/p>\n

4. It turns out the Hulu app on our Blu-Ray player is no longer supported by Sony or Hulu, so we can’t watch Marvel’s Runaways<\/i> that way. However, the Hulu phone app (but not the web page, as far as I can see) supports Chromecast, so that should work out well. Which is good, because we watched the first ep. and it was excellent.<\/p>\n

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