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		<title>lost then found, a bit late</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, you all know, was gorgeous. I spent the majority of it inside (which is my custom) and then ventured out about 2p. It was a big step but barely necessary. Avid readers (there are, literally, threes of them) will remember my post-Halloween misplacement of my ID (if not, read up). Turns out it showed [...]]]></description>
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<p>Yesterday, you all know, was gorgeous. I spent the majority of it inside (which is my custom) and then ventured out about 2p. It was a big step but barely necessary.</p>
<p>Avid readers (there are, literally, threes of them) will remember my post-Halloween misplacement of my ID (<a href="http://thoughtchasm.com/2008/11/my-weekend-by-anonymous/" target="_blank">if not, read up</a>). Turns out it showed up on a <a href="http://metrotransit.org/" target="_blank">MetroTransit</a> entity and was turned into their lost and found.</p>
<p>I took the 4 through downtown, listening to a guy and girl compete for who was the dimmer bulb of the two. One was illiterate, the other didn&#8217;t know where they were. I only mention this to remind all of you, romance is not dead. (But our species may be.)</p>
<p>After disembarking, I wandered over to the L&amp;F past the in-construction <a href="http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/min/ballpark/index.jsp" target="_blank">Twins, Target Stadium</a>. Things are moving along nicely, in the humble opinion of someone with no idea. (Some snaps are in the usual place.)</p>
<p>The L&amp;F was an impressive affair. I had to press a button, speak through an intercom and wait for forms and my ID to arrive via steel drawer. I admit, I was taken aback. (Not that I was expecting someone in heavy-rimmed glasses to dig into a worn cardboard box, but still.)</p>
<p>On the walk back downtown and the subsequent ride on the 6, I thought, <em>how did it take so long for the ID to show up behind the intercom?</em> If you do the math (<a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html" target="_blank">and I didn&#8217;t</a>), that&#8217;s 203 days, 29 weeks or 6 months and 22days. There are so many possibles for it taking that long&#8230;</p>
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<li>Some mastermind used it to create dozens, if not millions, of low-price IDs for idiot freshman.</li>
<li>It was taped to the wall of a bus, asking for redemption, so long everyone forgot about it.</li>
<li>An idiot freshman picked it up and used it for a few months before dropping it because he&#8217;s an idiot freshman.</li>
<li>Someone with a similar haircut, thus looking <em>exactly</em> like me, used it until he came of age and didn&#8217;t need it anymore, discarding it anonymously on LRT.</li>
<li>&#8230; that or it was used for unknown, unsavory activity by any number of shady characters in a long line of untoward individuals before landing in maximum security holding off of 6th Av N.</li>
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