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1. rk on October 19th, 2009 at 10:41 am

   I can one-up you – parents’ dog knocked over someone else’s half-full glass of red wine onto macbook keyboard, and into the vents. Cleaning off battery port and circuitry with wet q-tip is not fun OR smart. Sigh.

2. Lucy Foley on October 19th, 2009 at 10:47 am

   My sympathies to both of you. I would give you both a slice of the fuckgood tasting key lime pie I have currently got in the oven, had we but developed the teleporter by now.

3. Deron Bauman on October 19th, 2009 at 10:50 am

   if my doggie had done it I would feel like less of an idiot.

   anyone want to intervene on my behalf regarding key lime pie?

4. Sheila Ryan on October 19th, 2009 at 10:53 am

   Deron, honey, no one can make you eat a citrus dessert. You’re all grown-up now and can do whatever you want.

5. Deron Bauman on October 19th, 2009 at 10:55 am

   can you intervene on my laptop’s behalf?

6. Cindy Scroggins on October 19th, 2009 at 11:01 am

   I’m sorry you choose to drink so much water that it must inevitably spill onto your laptop from time to time.

   How’s that?

7. Lucy Foley on October 19th, 2009 at 11:02 am

   The pie is tasty tasty tasty.

8. Deron Bauman on October 19th, 2009 at 11:02 am

   I feel better already

9. Cindy Scroggins on October 19th, 2009 at 11:03 am

   I should charge.

10. Deron Bauman on October 19th, 2009 at 11:04 am

    Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to pee.

11. Lucy Foley on October 19th, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Cindy, I will pay you with a slice of key lime pie. We will have to fedex. They do an overnight service for about a hundred dollars.

    This is the first cake- or pie-related anything I have made in I don’t know how long. It is the first birthday cake I have ever made. And the birthday dude is several thousand miles away. I have candles! I hope they will actually sit in the cake (meringue topping to be made, shortly).

12. Cindy Scroggins on October 19th, 2009 at 11:26 am

    Thank you, Lucy. I’m worth the trouble.

13. Lucy Foley on October 19th, 2009 at 11:29 am

    I’m probably just drunk on cake mixture at this point.

14. Rick Neece on October 19th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    Deron
    Would you feel better knowing there may be a bigger idiot than you? A half-glass of water is generally sitting on my desk right next to my laptop all day at work. I’ve nearly knocked it over on the keyboard a dozen times yet I can’t seem to resist tempting fate by changing the place where I set the glass.

15. Sheila Ryan on October 19th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    I’m specially trained not to spill food or drink on unique historical documents. That’s why I can flout sensible rules about NO FOOD OR DRINK IN THE ARCHIVES.

    Surely my skills can be transferred to a different context.

    Maybe I could offer a weekend seminar.

16. Sheila Ryan on October 19th, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    Hey! Lucy! Did you FedEx the citrus dessert to Brooklyn?

    (Happy birthday, birthday dude.)

    There are an awful lot of my favorite people who were born in October. Yeah, October may have the highest concentration of friends’ birthdays.

17. Lucy Foley on October 19th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    The pie was a great success. Deron, put your fingers in your ears and say la la la right now. It is intensely limey and creamy and heavy and fabulous. No added sugar which is the coolest bit. Mum, two performing Squiglets and I sang happy birthday to him on Skype. He blew and the candles went out. We ate pie in Clare; he had a cupcake in Brooklyn. There’s other voodoo stuff involved but it is complicated and vaguely Catholic catechism-related.

18. Sheila Ryan on October 19th, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    Limey and creamy.

19. Sheila Ryan on October 19th, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    Did the Squiglets dance on their hind legs?

20. Lucy Foley on October 19th, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Yes.

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