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August 16, 2005 at 4:01 AM

National Random Day

It's official. I've declared today National Random Day, after reading several blogs and posts by random people and talking to random people at the coffee shop. No one wanted to do anything in particular, everyone almost did something or other, and usually the conversations wandered off-topic to discuss something car-related. That's the only common link I've found today.

Someone randomly offered to buy my sweet ride today, a '94 no-frills Honda Civic. I'd take 5K, if anyone's interested...

I randomly spilled coffee beans all over the floor at the coffee shop and enjoyed listening to The Gorillas loudly over the sound system while sweeping them up.

A belly ache enticed me to skip the hike today and take a nap and surf the internet for random topics, instead.

And I have 24 containers of free blueberries in my fridge that need sorted and frozen. That's what I'm doing this evening, me and my blue-tongued dog.

Emily, I'd like to point out, as a scientist, that sorting blueberries will decrease the total randomness in your day. This is a simple version of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Oh good. Now I have an excuse not to do that, since it's National Random Day. Does it qualify as random if I dump them on the floor and let the dog sort them?
And then I was like what and then she was like OMG you are like such a pig!
Yes. Yes, yes.
the sky is green today
Emily, any excuse for not doing work is good. However, if you dump the blueberries on the floor and let your dog sort them, you'll probably end up with a bigger mess to clean up. You have to plan laziness carefully.
Ah, the smurfs'll do my floors.