Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache
I got to be the first one to see the newest edition to the Insane family. (..) I shall have another grandson presented to me a week this Thursday. Curtesy of a 'C section'.
Good Lord, it is impossible to trump that!

Mere mortals such as Adrian II have to feast on the crumbs falling off your table.

My crumb today was a postal package, thick as a brick and containing the improved and extended edition of Ronald Prud'homme van Reine's biography of Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter. Not much later I received an email from the provincial archives of Zeeland province (where De Ruyter was born and where most of his archived papers still reside) informing me that they had discovered a hitherto unknown set of documents bearing on the 'Trouwhand' episode (see first paragraph of Wiki entry) when De Ruyter was supposedly a corsair. After perusing the book, it appears that it contains new information as well on his trips to the Moroccan interior, on his African adventures and on the precise circumstances of various battles of the three Anglo-Dutch wars in which De Ruyter acquitted himself so well.

Cigarettes.. check!
Bucket of coffee.. check!
Phone off the hook.. check!