Flashback: About a childish childhood joke...

You've almost certainly heard it, or been party to it on one side or another. It's the one that starts "What are you eating under there?"

I recall the first time I was on the poor end of that one, but not because I was made a fool of. Rather, because the frustrated reaction was memorable. It went something like, but not exactly like, this:

"What are you eating under there?"
"I'm not eating anything, can't you see that?"
"Well, if you were eating, what are you eating under there?"
"Under what?"
"You're supposed to say 'under where?'!"
"But that doesn't make any sense."
"Yes it does. Then it sounds like 'underwear.' That's the joke."
"It's not a very good one."

An odd bit to recall, but it is one of the earliest pieces of actual conversation that I can recall with anything even approaching accuracy. Strange what is still remembered so many years later. I'd like to claim it was superior reasoning that came to my aid, but more likely it was dumb luck and poor timing on the joker's part.

Falling behind. Or at least not gaining as fast.

Didn't do much with/for COLT last week. Nor all that much this weekend. I had planned to get more done with it but somehow I just didn't get 'into' it. I seem to have that each summer. Maybe it's a heat thing. Jay, of course, doesn't claim heat exists until it reaches levels I consider bordering on lethal. Maybe I need to see about doing more downstairs, where the temperatures are at reasonable levels.

So now I'm taking two weeks, so far, for an issue when I had hoped to keep at a one per week rate, at least until 2003 was taken car of. Then maybe a short break before working back on 2002 and such. And weekends won't be available for a while, not many anyway. This coming weekend is a faire in Waterloo, the next weekend is a faire in Sioux Falls. Then maybe a free weekend, and then another faire or maybe two. July is pretty open, save for AnthroCon.

On the bright side, I may just finish LT98 (March 2003) this week yet. Then I'd have only two more issues to go for the 2003 backlog. Yay, I should be able to manage that before July. Boo, lowered expectations.