Type Monkey Type

Yesterday's filler was much fuller than it had any sane mathematical right to be. Look at the god damned odds

Pretty sure it was a one in a two trillion day and maybe one of the infinite monkeys on one of the infinite typewriters might have predicted it but would have been laughed out of the monkey house for predicting such an unbelievable set of occurences.

Simians, start your Smith Coronas.

The day before yesterday, our oldest daughter Erin left Boston and drove to our grandson Oliver's hockey game. The only reason she was driving was because her husband Scott, who was supposed to take Oliver, had been called to an emergency meeting by his employers at Google. Scott has only been working at Google for a year and had never before been summoned to an emergency meeting. Also traveling with Erin and Oliver were our youngest grandchildren Hamish and Belma who only went because they would have needed chld care since Scott was working and Erin was no hockey momming.

Okkkayy nothing that unusual so far.

Yesterday Erin, Oliver, Hamish and Belma were in  in New Hampshire, the location of the hockey tournament. Oliver's team won a couple of games. 

OOOkay

However, the entire sequence was taking place near Mt. Washington which yesterday was the a) coldest most wind chilled place in America b) the coldest most wind chilled place in the recorded history of America and c) the coldest most windswept day on Earth.

Estimate the odds of Erin being in New Hampshire with 3 kids.

Estimate Erin being in New Hampshire with three kids in the coldest spot in the recorded history of America.

The odds of the coldest spot in the history of America alone is about 1 in 90,000.

The odds of the coldest spot in the world on a given day is worth at least another 1 in 180,000.

Type monkey type. Is the whole thing a billion to one yet?

Meanwhile, yesterday as well our youngest daughter Mary flew from Arctic Boston to visit us in North Carolina. The Chinese spy balloon had hovered over our neighborhood and was clearly visible before Mary took off. When she was coming in for a landing at the Charlotte Airport, she came as close as any civilian would come to the balloon which was shot down when she was still in air transit and came to earth a couple hundred miles from our home.

Okay monkey before you start typing:

Estimate the odds of a Chinese balloon on a spy mission flying across America.

Estimate the odds of said balloon passing directly over our house.

Estimate the odds of Mary airborne and as close as a civilian is gonna get to said balloon

and now monkey

Combine all those odds with the odds of Erin's adventure and tell the story of filling fuller.

It's about as full as fill can get.