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Perrine just woke up suddenly, meowing and chirping, and immediately jumped up and demanded that I pet her.

Bad dream, perhaps?

"[...] This concept of seder is no different for kabbalistic Oreo-eating. Which should come first? A straightforward bite into the whole cookie? Should one first break apart the two sandwich halves and concentrate on the creme? One can postulate that if white represents purity and goodness, and black evil and darkness, then perhaps one should eat the white first, as an example of the yetzer hatov triumphing over the yetzer hora? Or should one save the best for last, so to speak, by first destroying, via consumptive powers, the Darkness (the cookie part) and be left only with Light (the creme)? Or perhaps, this sort of binary weltanschauung is not healthy at all it may be preferable to take the centrist position and bite into the intact cookie, representing the real-world mix of good and bad, light and dark, moderation versus extremism. [...]" -- Owain F. Carter, "The Year That Oreos Became Kosher", 2000, adapted from an earlier version of unknown origin.

I've returned the rental car. The guy at Enterprise asked me whether there had been any problems. When I replied, "Other than the auto designers in Detroit having lost their minds and forgotten everything they learned in the '60s, '70s, and 80's?" he mentioned his own complaints about current designs, correctly predicting portions of my own rant.

Tonight, 3LF. Tomorrow, more car stuff.