I finished filling out
forms to
adopt a
child and realized,
after I'd left the
office, that I had no
idea what
age
the child would be.
Automatically my
mind started
running
through
scenarios of the interactions of this
hypothetical
child and my three-year-old
daughter; the variations
depending on the age of the adoptee.
My SO was having trouble reprogramming one of the
speed-dial buttons on our telephone. In trying to
re-insert the same number as before, he kept hitting
the speed-dial button as part of the programmed
sequence. I saw immediately that this was
creating an infinite loop.