Moments That Surprised Me

• My mother asked for help in buying tickets from an online scalper to last night’s Bruce Springsteen concert. 
• Paying the registration fee for next week’s tennis tournament. 
• The Final Jeopardy question which referenced, by name, my favorite used bookstore on the planet. 
• My running pace picked up over the past year. 
• That hole that was dug out from the side of my house is all patched up.
• Last Sunday I hosted a lovely gathering of my occasional soup clubbers. 
• A question I posed to Google responds: Loverboy. Yep, Loverboy. The band. 
• There is a long list of arguable points to justify why oatmeal cookies make the perfect breakfast. 
•  A group of ten year olds tasked me with putting the Fonz into context. 
• I’ve been reading Outside Magazine recently. Live Bravely.
• British Petroleum agreed to plead guilty to a series of fourteen criminal charges and pay $4.5 billion in fines and penalties for the fatalities associated with the Deep Horizons drill rig explosion two years.