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Sometimes you'll be at work and someone will say something ridiculously inappropriate on IM that you now have to hide from anyone that might walk by, and the rest of the conversation looks like

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Clearly we've got a situation now where I'm supposed to rattle off 7 quick blog posts until there's no retrievable record that I have ever farted ... right?

Anyways, moving on to Tai's next post. I think that picture was taken like 3 days after the test. That was an exciting day. First I had done the math, and figured out the conditional probabilities of "it's a boy" or "it's a girl" based on the assumption that the test is 80% right and 20% wrong (their claim), and added assumptions like "80% of the time I'm naturally going to have a boy, vs having a girl 20% of the time" (my claim). With those assumptions I figured out that if you got a boy result, there would now be 16-1 odds favoring a boy, and if you got a girl result, it would be 50-50 whether it was a boy or girl. Subsequently I went around posting that everywhere that I assumed I could post that without someone scrolling it off the top.

So Tai woke up whatever morning that was, and I was assuming we were going to get the test that night, but she was like "we have to do this NOW ... i have to go pee NOW ... it has to be the first morning pee" and of course we hadn't even gotten the test yet. So I'm thinking, uhh ... (don't wanna get up) .... isn't it going to be pretty unpleasant waiting for me to go to the store while you're laying in bed holding it in? (or for that matter walking to the store with me holding it in?) So we found a random clean receptacle laying around the room (don't worry roommates, it has already been classified as a biohazard and will not be turning up in the kitchen sink, soon or ever) and Tai did her business (I was about to say "while I went to walgreens", but I doublefactchecked just now and she came with me). It was kindof funny when I looked at the shelf and there were like, 80 spots on the shelf for condoms, 30 for pregnancy tests, and right in the middle of pregnancy tests 1 spot for the intelligender tests (I'm sure there are other categories of "things" on the shelves I forgot or omitted).

So then we came back and I pulled out the various utensils and did the titrating, made sure to swirl the contents like it said on the instructions but not shake them, and told Tai "I've gotta go jump in the shower, it'll be quick", and she was like "NOOO, you have ten minutes!" ... "psh, 10 minutes, I can be done in 5". 14 minutes later I came back in and Tai was going "it didn't look like anything. Those were the two colors and it didn't change color at all."

So I sortof looked at it and went hmmm .... there were little flavor crystals that probably didn't dissolve, let's try swirling it a little bit and see what happens (also I noticed it just kindof looked like there was dark sediment at the bottom), so as soon as I gave it a little swirl the sediment took over and the whole cup turned the EXACT color of the "it's a boy!" color (on the other side, the "it's a girl!" color was about 12 shades lighter than the pre-swirl color, so the fact that it went from dark to darker makes me at least 16-to-1 convinced of the reality of the situation).

So the bottom line is now I just have to work on shifting Tai's overton window until she is considering a name like Zaxxon Clyde to be the norm for our son, (just now, "that's what you're doing, isn't it? when you suggest names like, fucking, THOR") and then we're golden. Golden, as in, NOT the color that was returned by the gender test.