What makes an April Fool's article from last year suddenly be so popular?

Right now is the future he came from?

Yikes, Steph. Glad you have Kato!

Our next-door neighbors were broken into a few weeks ago, and M feels terrible because he actually saw the guys who did it. He saw a couple of youngish men walk up to the house, ring the doorbell, and then when nobody answered, they walked away. Not terribly suspicious, but a little odd. Then a few hours later the neighbors came home and discovered they'd been robbed. Apparently the guys had walked around to the alley that runs behind our street and gone in through their backyard, which is fenced in with a high wooden fence for their dog. (Fortunately the dog was fine, but apparently she's not quite the guard dog they hoped she might be.)

Anyway, he felt really bad for not calling the cops when he saw them earlier, even though he wasn't sure what he would have said if he had. So I'm gonna say I think you made the right call.

Also, we have now taken to hiding our laptops whenever we leave the house. I'd like to think we're not a particularly attractive target, since we don't have a lot of major electronics or fancy-looking items, and our schedules are somewhat erratic. But I still worry, of course, mostly about what might happen to the (decidedly indoor-only) cats if someone broke in.

Well, to paraphrase Chekov, if you introduce a dog in the first act it needs to go off by the third.

Heh. Good one.

9am isn't too early to schedule a meeting for, like, normal people, right? I'm not being a jerk? It's just, time zones, man, and that's the only schedule hole.

9am isn't too early to schedule a meeting for, like, normal people, right?

I have probably 2 8ams per week. It's not *great*, but it's my job. I'm not expected to be deliriously happy about it.

I'm rarely in the office by 9am these days, but I'd certainly be here for a 9am meeting if I had to be, and I wouldn't be surprised or unhappy about it.

9am isn't too early to schedule a meeting for, like, normal people, right?

No. I mean, if you know that they all usually roll in at 10AM, then maybe, but outside other information, no.

I think 8AM is pushing it unless they're able to call in from home or something (I say this because I can, but when I had to be in the office for 8AM telecons with the east coast, it seriously irked)

I did some checking and scheduled it for 10am his time, as that's when I think he usually comes in. I'll just have to eat a late lunch.

That was so nice of me. I suddenly feel the urge to ruin someone's day. I mean, someone whose day deserves to be ruined, of course.

Also, we have now taken to hiding our laptops whenever we leave the house. I'd like to think we're not a particularly attractive target, since we don't have a lot of major electronics or fancy-looking items, and our schedules are somewhat erratic. But I still worry, of course, mostly about what might happen to the (decidedly indoor-only) cats if someone broke in.

Yeah, after the recent break-ins, I've started locking up the laptop when I leave. Our house is one of the smallest and crappiest, so I feel like it's not an appealing target, but I imagine thieves target whatever they can.

Apparently at Walmart, business meetings routinely start at 7am. So.