I had a couple of conversations with fellows on my team that sure made *me* wonder. During one, the fellow was using acronyms related to application development with such sincerity and enthusiasm that I felt bad telling him that it was like he had started speaking Polish to me. I was kind of flattered that he thought I would understand but the wind whistled at the speed of the conversation going right over my head. Later, I was looking at a Web page with another fellow and told him one of the colours was eye-popping shade. He opened the page code and said he could change it right then, what did I want. I said “lighter” and he asked for the six-digit code I preferred. When I was at a loss, he first suggested an alternate final letter that he next switched for a number when the effect was still not light enough. Again, I was flattered at his suggestion that I might know the necessary codes. On the bright side, I can find grammatical errors that they miss. (Not that you would think so based on these messages, I blame the errors on my thumbs).
After work, Reid wanted all of us to walk to get the mail together. She takes such joy in having both of take her places and so I shooed Ken out the door. As we walked, Ken reminded Reid that it was swimming night. The wonders wouldn’t cease. It was Wednesday and so swimming night! I hadn’t forgotten. (No surprises, there.)