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I have tried to write this post several times but we are having some kind of Internet problem and I keep losing the post just before I get it finished.  Anyway, let's try again.

Yesterday my daughter was reading after school.  Like many freshman English classes, they are doing Greek mythology.  I was asking her questions about her day when she yelled at me, "dad, I have one more paragraph left in Sisyphus, just let me finish.  Every time you interrupt me I have to start over".  So of course I had to wait about ten seconds, just when I estimated she was about done, and I interrupted her again.  I kept doing this for a while, thinking it was simply hilariously apt.  Unfortunately, I don't think she

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brilliant.

For the next chapter you may have to dangle the book over her head and pull it just out of reach when she tries to get it.

Thanks Warren, that was laugh out loud funny.

Watch who tells the physicans "pull the plug" no matter what the EEG actually shows.

Molten Irony.

Glad I was sitting at someone else's keyboard.

The Greek gods were often cruel too.

Truly classic

Next week: Prometheus. You'll need an endless supply of fava beans and Chianti.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

What will you do to her when she reaches Procrustes?