Last night I had a dream where I was doing something on my phone while a friend was playing a video game. Someone else in their party (someone online, I think?) wanted to go back to the start, but they couldn’t remember how to get there. I said:

Out the door, take a right, then left and left again. I’m barely paying attention and I remember.

I have no idea why that part of the dream stuck in my mind.

Yeah, but with MOLLE clips! What an operator!

I have a podcast called Almost Plausible where a couple of friends and I take an ordinary object and create a movie plot based on that object.

Fox never gave it a fair shake. It premiered in a time slot where TV shows go to die, and they aired episodes out of order. The pilot episode, which sets up basically everything wasn’t the first episode aired. Damn shame.

Well that sure takes me back.

Jolly Ranchers

Edit my podcast.

(Almost Plausible, in case you’re looking for another podcast to listen to.)

Now that’s a username!

Sort of. In 1984, Phyllis Penzo worked at a pizzeria and Officer Robert Cunningham suggested splitting a lottery ticket in lieu of a tip. Penzo actually forgot about it, but Cunningham won $6 million and honored their agreement. The film came out in 1994, so it was almost certainly inspired by the story (I didn’t find a definitive answer in my incredibly brief search).

The woman pictured in OP’s post is Tonda Dickerson, who was a waitress at Waffle House in Florida in 1999. She was tipped the lottery ticket, and everything in the image appears to be true.

She didn’t even buy that lottery ticket. All that trouble was foisted upon her because someone else gave her the ticket. Imagine you’re minding your own business, and then someone gives you a lottery ticket and your whole life gets turned upside down. It’s crazy to think that It Could Happen to You.

Did we ever get more purple petunias, though? I would be interested in very purple petunias.

I recently visited my city’s wastewater treatment plant for a tour. This was taken from the top of one of the giant digesters that process solids.

Bears?