Saturday Morning Observations
Category: Kitchen Sink...
Posted Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 09:53 AM [GMT-6]

First, let me just say that I plan to lodge a sternly-worded complaint with Management regarding this morning's weather. We awoke to 43° and a wind chill of 34. That's ridiculous; whoever heard of having to wear earmuffs and gloves during a walk on the eve of May in west Texas?

Of course, Abbye didn't even notice, despite having a coat thinned by her TSH imbalance.

The upside is that this will give us an excuse to spend part of the day in a movie theater, consoled by a big tub of popcorn. Let's see..."Hitchhiker's Guide"? "Kung Fu Hustle"? "XXX"? Decisions, decisions...

Anyway, MLB were at IHOP for our usual Saturday morning breakfast (sans our regular breakfast partners who are busy trying to adapt to being first-time grandparents), enjoying a couple of life's simple blessings: leisurely cups of coffee while skimming through the local newspaper. (I've written before about the tactile advantage of newsprint over electronic media.) For whatever reason, the conversation turned to our respective comics reading habits.

If you're a regular consumer of newspaper-based comics, I'm willing to bet that you have a set sequence of reading them that never deviates. For example, I always begin in the bottom right column, read up to the top of the page, shift to the top left column and read down to the end (meaning that I always end with "Dilbert"). On the other hand, MLB has this truly strange behavior of starting at the bottom left, reading across, then up one row, reading back to the left, up one row, and repeat until near the top of the page, where she then reads two comics on one side and finishes with two on the other side. Her reading system is, frankly, beyond my comprehension (but that goes for many of her mysterious ways, something that I suspect many husbands can relate to).

Regardless of our apparently genetically-ingrained sequences, we achieve convergence in at least one area: neither of us reads "Mary Worth."

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