It is only fair that I warn you all in advance — my luck in making random bets appears to be back.

I wrote in September about a streak of bad luck regarding wagers with roommate CA.  These were $1 bets on things like the number of points that would be scored in a Susquehanna University football game or whether our other roommate would go for a bike ride within two weeks.

But thanks to a bet with a coworker, I feel things have turned around.

During the Christmas season, one of the people in the newsroom decorated her cubicle with Christmas lights.  After the holiday passed and the lights remained, my coworker who sits near the festive workspace said she was sure they would be up until at least March.

That sounded plausible to me, but also kind of crazy.  So I suggested we bet on it, initially going with the over-under style and me saying the lights would be gone before March.  Winner received the breakfast of their choice.  I thought that seemed a little too easy, so we switched to “whoever is closer” — I had roughly February 5, and I think my coworker had March 15.

On January 15, I got an email — “what do you like for breakfast?”

My reply:  “VICTORY!!!!  Which to me tastes like an Egg McMuffin.”

Victory is delicious.