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God bless the easily amused

Said to me by a coworker while troubleshooting why an intranet application ceased working: "I really don't envy your job; you are always in crisis mode with every staff member's and volunteer's crises."

And so, an anecdotal interruption to our regularly scheduled crisis:

We had decided to introduce my husband's parents to Thai cuisine while they were in town visiting because they had been eating a "great deal more stir-fry" with their youngest now off to college.

They were so excited to try something very new and very different than anything they could get in Homer that my mother-in-law immediately declared that we were to all order a different dish so that they could sample a little of everything. They did not try any noodle dishes, but were extremely pleased with the food.

After I sent my Personal Water Glass Refiller Boy away (boy, was that handy) and our dishes were cleared, she expressed interest in B's watch. This watch is neither fancy nor expensive, but that did not stop them from being thoroughly enthralled by its numerous moving time indicators.

"Did you see that? The little dot disappeared!"
"It sure did."
"Watch, it will do it again."
"Maybe it won't."
"Well... now it's filling up again!"
"But what is it for?"
"Ooh! There it went!"

For a full ten minutes.