Check and Double-Check

Schoolhouse Clock

Robin Cody will speak at the Oysterville Schoolhouse at 10:00 tomorrow morning.  Ten ayem.  Thanks to one of my bright-eyed readers, I am pointing out a disparity between what appeared in the e-Edition of the Chinook Observer this past week and what I wrote in my blog.  The time noted in the Observer (in an article written by me, I’m sorry to say) was wrong, wrong, wrong.  I am not to be fully trusted, especially when it comes to numbers.

I have not yet checked today’s paper so I don’t know if they were able to get the error corrected before they went to press.  I did see that it was corrected in the online paper after my desperate eleventh-hour plea yesterday morning.  But, if you are reading this and plan to go, please double-check your calendar notation and adjust your plans if you need to!

Numbers and I are at odds.  I don’t think that’s always been the case.  I didn’t have any trouble learning my street address in first grade – 1320 Versailles Avenue.  Or my phone number – LAkehurst 2- 2378.  But something must have happened along about the time I got my social security number.  That was 66 years ago and I still can’t remember all those numbers!  Or my cell number, for that matter.  I can remember my address and my landline number. Period. Oh, and my birthdate in both words and numbers!  Yay!

Screenshot: Robin Cody Article, Chinook Observer Online

I look on in amazement when Nyel rattles off his various numbers AND my various numbers without drawing breath.  How does he do that?  On the other hand, he never worries about being late… and sometimes he is.  I drive him crazy wanting to leave extra time for flat tires and mudslides.  I’m almost always early.  Maybe that’s just in case.  Just in case I got the time screwed up.  Again.

Double-check, please.  Robin Cody.  Oysterville Schoolhouse. 10 o’clock.  Thursday, February 1st. Seating is limited.  Get there early.  And take into account the “Men Working” slowdown on the back road.  See you there!

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