I titled yesterday’s post “New board games and a phantom pet” and then I completely forgot to mention the phantom pet!
My wife keeps getting emails from the vet about some mystery pet we apparently have named Scout. She got one yesterday, since yesterday was Scout’s birthday. A big congratulatory email, and some reminders that Scout may be due for a check-up. She said this has been going on for years, and also that whenever she phones the vet for anything do do with Scully, our actual dog, the person on the line always asks, “Is this about Scout or Scully?”
She said she’s asked them multiple times to have this mysterious Scout removed from our records, but they never seem to do it. I suggested that she call the vet and pretend to be crying and say she was upset to receive the birthday email because Scout got hit by a car and was no longer with us.
Anyway, she did phone them, but made a slightly more polite request. She also learnt that apparently Scout is a cat. I was thinking it’d be funny if Scout turned out to be a tortoise or something. But hopefully they’ve finally got the message and she won’t have to put up with Scout being mentioned constantly in the future. The only remaining mystery is how this happened in the first place.
Today I did my usual 5k run in the morning. But after yesterday’s extended 7.5k effort, my muscles were still a bit tired and also with the weather being 22°C and 80% humidity at 8:30 am when I started, I went pretty slowly.
It was warm and humid today, and in the evening we had a huge thunderstorm roll in, about 7:30 pm, in the middle of one of my online classes. I had to tell the kids that if I lost power the lesson might end abruptly.
I’m looking forward to the coming week. I’ll have more free time after finishing all the university marking last week!
New content today:
I was actually reading the yesterday post waiting for this phantom pet and it never appeared. So disappointing! But then again, it was supposed to be phantom…