I'm hot & cold cuz it's damp out. FIL seems to be doing all right. fidgety, cranky and occasionally confused but not like he normally is after surgery. They are being very cautious cuz something heart related had a slight jump but I think this happened last time too.
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"Am I speaking in a language you're not getting here?"
We had a salesman come in early this morning, but he had lots of neat stuff. Although he's showing stuff for us to resale, I bought a laptop bag for myself. $50 wholesale. It's a super nice bag, heck it retails for $100, but I'm still hoping I didn't jump the gun on it. But it has a lifetime warranty, and I'm hard on bags. And I've never seen a bag with this much protection for the laptop. They're the same bags that Apple sells in their stores. The one I got can be converted from a shoulder bag to a backpack.
We had a salesman come in early this morning, but he had lots of neat stuff. Although he's showing stuff for us to resale, I bought a laptop bag for myself. $50 wholesale. It's a super nice bag, heck it retails for $100, but I'm still hoping I didn't jump the gun on it. But it has a lifetime warranty, and I'm hard on bags. And I've never seen a bag with this much protection for the laptop. They're the same bags that Apple sells in their stores. The one I got can be converted from a shoulder bag to a backpack.
Our one and only local paper (The Custer County Chief) comes out once a week on Thursdays.
I think this is the third year now, but for the last few years, the paper has sponsored a weight loss challenge. The challenge runs three months and it consists of people in teams, with four people in each team.
When the challenge starts, the paper publishes a special insert (full of revenue building ads) showing photos of all the teams, and prints their (usually humorous) team name. They get the teams beginning weights at that time (weights are not published). Then 1/2 way through, they publish another special insert showing each team's current progress in percentage of weight loss, just like we're doing with "25 weeks". Then, at the end of the contest, they publish final results, and the first place team wins $1,000 and the second place wins money too (I think its $400).
At the 1/2 way point, percentages lost varied from gains, to losses of 4-5% . . . except for one team. This one team, which my step sister and her husband happen to be on, had a result of 24%. Yes, it was published as a 24% loss!! Almost 1/4 of their total weight lost in 1.5 months? I was joking with my step sister and asked her which member of their team they killed and disposed of to lose 24% of their total weight.
Now today, the Thursday paper comes out and there is a HUGE article by the paper's editor that she is very sorry for a goof she made.
It came time for the final weigh-in and about 1/4 of the teams didn't show up to check in. She started calling these teams to ask why, and the common answer was "There is no way we could beat the 24% team, so we quit trying."
Now, the editor claims she just now realized the math error in the 24% number and how sorry she is about this. She admitted that she did the math herself and it is totally her mistake. She offered to extend the contest two weeks and then do a final weigh-in again, but many of the teams are saying that they basically quit trying 1.5 months ago so two weeks (or any extension) is not fair for them to catch up to the teams that kept working on the challenge.
What a mess they have.
The thing that has me scratching my head, is how could have the paper editor came up with 24% weight loss is 1.5 months and not had that sound a bit of an alarm in her head that it wasn't right? The paper even has their own team in the challenge. I also can't believe that someone didn't ask her after that 1/2 way report: "What? This group had 24% loss when the next highest loss is less than 6%"
Also, what about the teams? Wouldn't you think "24% in 1.5 months? No way, that can't be right", and keep playing the game?
I believe she had to be aware of the error after it was published, and the thing she really needs to be sorry about is not publishing an "oops" right away when it was found. I thing she had to be made aware of her error but just decided to not worry about correcting it since it wasn't the final result . . . or she thought that people would realize that 24% was an obvious error and she thought it didn't need to be corrected.
At any rate, this is the major topic of discussion around town today . . . gotta love small town livin'.
Still not quite ready to be awake. YAY for WFH Thursday.
