{"id":44,"date":"2011-02-20T17:58:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2011-02-27T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T11:17:00","slug":"long-term-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/long-term-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-term Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a Craigside Christmas many years ago, someone gave a copy of “Juggling for the Complete Klutz.”<\/a> I have no idea who the giver and recipient were. It’s not important. Unless it was your prezzie, in which case I have your juggling balls, and I’m not giving them back.<\/p>\n

For the next few weeks, we all developed excellent bending-down-and-picking-things-up-again skills. We knocked over drinks, (almost) smashed windows and, in one moment of ineptitude that haunts me to this day, dropped a high one on Wotcat. He was not pleased.<\/p>\n

The outcome of all this prestidigitation was that I learned to juggle three random objects. A fun, if largely worthless skill. Until today. We pottered over to the Story Bridge Hotel for the usual Sunday afternoon entertainment. As on most Sundays, there was a promotion running. This week it was for Bulmer’s Cider.<\/a> Awesome. A pair of the inevitable young ladies in tight t-shirts were offering a challenge: Juggle three apples and get a free glass of cider. Jackpot. They gave us a glass each. Happy. (It’s actually a damned good cider – would drink again, even if I have to juggle for it.)<\/p>\n

So, let that be a lesson for you. When you are late for your Differential Geometry exam because you’re practising your juggling, remember that smoothness proofs never got anyone a free cider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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