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moment of brilliance

"I live every day like my master plan is to suck." -- plain layne

Today... got another cache on the way to infant/child CPR class. The park was sort of scummy but good in an urban vacant lot sort of way.

CPR class creepy. Thank god j.p. was there, otherwise I would have been lost in a world of scary, somewhat unfriendly moms. It was amazing how much the instructions for first aid have changed since the last time I took the class. The teacher encouraged us to imagine disaster regularly, as "practice". Like I don't perform emergency tracheotomies with ballpoint pens all the time already? Come on!

Then, looking at the creepy mannequins's open mouths, the words "just like pedophile blow-up dolls!" came to my lips unbidden. Fortunately I kept my lips zipped and did not allow these words to escape.

Home to do a bunch of puzzles; noah's ark, another noah's ark, ocean creatures, pets, farm animals, dinosaurs with volcano. Then L. and I made a new cache at the skate park. Fun! In the hardware store, in search of magnets, black spray paint, and super glue for our altoids tin cache boxes, the guy behind the counter freaked out joyously over my red "Duncan Butterfly" yo-yo (vintage 1976). Then another guy - mustached, junkie-prison tattoos, prison muscles, hair slicked back - came up, "I used to be in competitions when i was a kid!" I hand the yo-yo to him and he does tricks with style and grace. L. and I giggling madly.

Home again to play middle earth RPG. The plot is slow. I spent 2 hours of it decoding the rune message on the dragon horn artifact. I hadn't expected it to be anything other than letter substitution but it turns out to be very subtle and difficult, with everything that could be a dipthong, dipthongized, and the silent "e" left out. Once I figured out that the 1 letter words couldn't be "I" or "a" and that there was no obvious "e" anywhere in the message - the 3 letter words that should have had "the", "and", or "who" in there, didn't. Therefore that 1 letter word was probably "the". Joy, that worked. The code-maker was beyond shocked that I got it. "You weren't supposed to get it!" Uh, why make it then? Did he think I was just jacking off during that 2 hours on the couch with pen and paper? My youth was not misspent doing puzzle books for naught.

M. ended up sobbing in existential despair over the plight of Gonzo in "Muppets in Space". He has watched it many times, but perhaps this time got the idea that Gonzo's family went away. Very sad! I felt bad that I had been so involved in the cryptogram that I hadn't really checked on him in his room during the movie. Then he asked for a lot of baby books that we haven't read in a while, as if it were comforting to him to hear "oh my oh my oh dinosaurs" and "baby beluga" as an antidote to his sadness. But every once in a while I'd be in the middle of "dinosaurs big, dinosaurs tiny" and his face would screw up horrribly and huge tears gush out instantly and he's sobbing again "Gonzo wa wa wa wo wo". "Honey, Gonzo was sad, but then went back to live with his friends in their big house, with Kermit, with Luis the King Prawn, and Rizzo the Rat, and his friends loved him and they had a great time." "Wa wah wo wo Gonzo wa Gonzo no Kermit wa wa wa." (Huh?) "I'm sorry honey. You can sit on my lap..." "Waaaaaaa Gonzo and the wa wa wa his wo wo wa!!!!!!" (erg, no dramatic movie next game night!)