Melanie lands her seventh perfect square

Melanie is my former mentor and one of my closest friends and favorite people in the world, and she’s 49 YEARS OLD today.  I’d put up a photo of her—she is a totally babealicious hot blonde—but she’d freak out.  I’d also send you to her blog or web page to congratulate/harass her, but she doesn’t have one.  (I told her today that she needs a Facebook page, at least, but I’m not holding my breath.)

I mused that it might be her next-to-last perfect square, but she’s pretty sure she’ll make it to 81, so we’ll call it her next-to-next-to-last perfect square.

I gave her the run of northern Alabama and southern Tennessee for her birthday lunch today, but she still chose Viet Huong.  I (completely realistically) estimate that we’ve eaten there 300 times.  It was good, as always.

We went to Sam’s afterwards for a walk and a look around, where I turned up “Hells Bells” louder and louder on a demonstration stereo until she got embarrassed enough to walk away.  (I must say, she held out longer than I thought she would.  It was pretty damned loud.)

Incidentally, today is the last day you’ll catch me making a spontaneous and unconsidered appearance in a retail establishment until perhaps January 5.  My hiatus traditionally begins November 15, and ends the first Monday after the first weekend of the new year.

I’ll still have to make a few exceptions.  We’re going to run out of dog food at least once, so I’ll have to make a trip to Costco for that.  And I’m sure there will be a Lowe’s/Home Depot run in there somewhere, though I can do that very early in the morning and minimize the insanity.

But a mall?  Or Bridge Street?  Not a chance in hell.

Happy Birthday, Melanie!  Many more!

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3 thoughts on “Melanie lands her seventh perfect square”

  1. Oh, jeez! You’re gonna make me do MATH?! What’s a perfect square – a number times itself, right? So that makes 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, and 81, right?

    How fricking pathetic am I that I don’t know this stuff?

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  2. Mrs. Chili: My tenth-grade geometry teacher made us memorize the perfect squares of 1 through 25, and I consider that one of the most valuable lessons of high school. You wouldn’t effin’ believe how often it comes in handy.

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  3. I had wonderful time, thanks! And you scoffed when I said I would make it 3 more times – 64, 81, and 100, but I’m flat out determined. 121, however, might be tough. 🙂 Thanks for a great time – no better gift than good times with good friends.

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