krista and i played monopoly for much of sunday afternoon.

i got thrashed. :)

thinking i would do better at a variant, we tried the "short" game. we set a half-hour time limit. i got clobbered once again, even though sweetie had to field an important call during part of the game. she's awesome.

wish i could multitask like that.

SOB, SOB!

about fifteen minutes into my saturday shift in a long time, i saw a familiar patron sitting at the computer i'm typing at right now (#16). i don't know who he is, but today he had his left elbow resting on the table, forearm straight up. on his hand, his middle finger was extended, but the person to the left of his paid no attention. it was wrapped up in a bandage and whatnot.

i thought that only happened in the movies.

yesterday, i shelved a relatively new novel called "at risk." it's by the former head of mi5 (you know, the same british intelligence agency for which james bond worked).

her name is stella remington and she was appointed to the post in 1992.

pierce brosnan was cast as james bond in 1995 ("goldeneye"), after gaining and losing the role to timothy dalton (1987's "the living daylights") because of his committment to an nbc television series.

the show (and his character) was called remington steele.

"goldeneye" was the first bond film to feature a woman as head of mi5, just a few years behind reality.

is all this coincidence? yes.