You were able to easily beat someone until money was on the table? There's a term for that.

hustled?

I learned that the ballroom scene in Jim Henson's Labyrinth was choreographed by Gates McFadden.

Eight egrets in a field along my morning dog walk.

What an egretful incident

Hopefully you don't live to egret it

I saw the start of a car chase.

Driver in a broken down POS car rear ends a shiny new BMW 550i.

Beemer dude gets out, POS dude backs up starts to drive off. Beemer dude stands in front of POS dudes car. POS dude guns it. Beemer dude literally jumps out of the way. POS dude speeds away down the first side street. 5 seconds later the 550i tears off down the same street.

I'd guesstimate the collision was at about 2mph and probably resulted in a smudge on the 550i's bumper. I really hope there were no kids on their way to school down that street.

I got up, went to the kitchen, flipped on the light, and at that very moment the power to the whole neigborhood went out, including my house.

In the imortal words of Capt Jack:

In just about 60 seconds it came back on, and there is construction going on outside the housing tract so I don't know if that had anything to do with it. But the timing is very wierd....

Chris is out of town, so of course everything is weird. I can't get the furnace pilot lit, someone opened our back gate, there's an odd beeping coming from the office and I can't figure out what's doing it and I'm catching a cold.

Well, good. That only lasts a month. 27 more days to go.