Big Stuff Going On

Well, Dr. Theresa and I have finally done it. We found a way for one of our cats to pick lottery numbers. Result? We've won $18 so far. The cat correctly picked three numbers on a "Match 5" ticket and the "powerball" on another. I informed McNeil first, as it dovetailed so perfectly with his plans to teach a dog to win at blackjack. Let's see what else is in the news. This just over the wire! It seems the Million Dollar Book Club finished reading a biography of Lord Byron, then I grabbed up a mass-market paperback with 3/4 of the cover torn off and the pages all brown with age and sadness, something I found in the big barrel of orphaned books no one wants in the park. And okay! Here comes some of that sweet, sweet synchronicity McNeil loves so much: in a postscript to the Byron book, kind of like the end of AMERICAN GRAFFITI or ANIMAL HOUSE, they tell you what happened to some of the "characters" later in life. For example, Byron's daughter Ada, we are told, "is remembered as the world's first computer programmer." Well! For just that reason, she also turns out to be a character in this random book I happened to snatch from the garbage pile of life. The book is some kind of "steam punk" or "speculative fiction" or I don't know what the hell it is.