A fine day to indulge in sweeping paranoia.

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• As usual for a Saturday, we needed to run errands.


• Due to me being unusually listless this past week, that included going to the library to return a book


• And get more books.


• kshandra and I took one look at the DVD collection available, with a 10 DVD limit, and decided on the spot to kill our Netflix account.


• There a little more money not going out that we can use for more important things.


• I was returning Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire and picked up two new books: The Hapsburgs: Embodying Empire and The Bourbons: The History of a Dynasty


• The reason for this sudden fascination with European royal houses is simple. I might have a RPG design gig.


• This is research as well as pleasure.


• But before going to the awesome Central Park Branch, we went by the civic Christmas Tree.


• We're both kicking ourselves for not going to the tree lighting, because Santa Clara has a teddy bear that lives at the top of the tree. This was Teddy's 100th anniversary serving as the tree topper.


• But while walking around the tree I found a pencil. A police pencil. The police chief's own personal pencil!


• I have a police pencil and you don't.


• Neener.


• Seriously, I am way too pleased about this pencil.


• After shopping for food (Yay food) we made one stop for a lottery ticket, and then home.


• Near our home was a SC police car, stopped in front of an apartment building with lights going.


• Nearby was a chicken.


• I freaked.


• The police knew I had the pencil! They were after me! And the Chickens of French Camp were helping the police track me down!


• My babbled explanation of this to Kiri invoked the infamous An Explosive Affair episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.


• "And the phone cops are in on it!" As we drove past a Comcast truck "See!?!?!!"


• I do paranoia right.