Claire and I were watching some of the new Apple TV ads over the internet. Computer Genius, Party Is Over, and Choose a Vista. We were watching them on my Dell laptop (PC.) They stopped playing correctly, and I had to restart my browser. I told her I thought this might be irony at work.

When I closed the browser, she saw my Lotus Notes mailbox and saw the number 6,562 next to my Inbox. “Six thousand five hundred and sixty two,” she said, “Wow!”

I explained that was the count of unread messages. She mused, “Unread messages… the most I ever have is two.”

I’m not sure which us was more amazed. Surely life is better if the you only have two unread messages.

(And no, that is not an accurate number, but I can’t really explain it here.)