I’ve been lucky this year. I’ve dodged the various bugs and ickies going around. But this weekend, I finally got hit. I thought I would “work from home” on Monday, but that turned into sleeping on the couch all day long. Worse yet, Tammy’s got it now too. I hate being a transmitter because I know exactly how bad she’ll feel over the next few days.

I got a major part in this year’s Christmas musical at the church. I’m Joseph, Jesus’ step-dad, so to speak. It’s a very challenging role because there’s a lot of emotion involved as Joseph struggles with the fact that the woman he loves is pregnant with someone else’s baby and her story is too wild to believe.

And now for Tammy’s big story of the day:

Power FM, the best Christian rock station ever, has been doing a long running give-away contest called “the Battleship Game”. Each morning a randomly selected caller (They use a computer program to randomly select which line is the winner.) takes a shot. If you get a hit, you take another shot. If you sink a ship, you get a prize.

Tammy has always had supernatural fortune (See I don’t believe in “luck”) in these kinds of things. She’s won more stuff off the radio than I can even remember. But today, she out-did herself.

Over the last few days, all the misses around a recent hit have been eliminated. Everyone knew today someone would sink the ship. Tammy was lucky caller 2. (First time she’s gotten through since the contest began weeks ago.) They were going through the formalities before she took her shot when the phone line went dead. She wasn’t even on a cell phone. No one knows what happened. The DJ’s agonized over it. The phones were jam packed with people wanting to play so there was no way they were going to get Tammy back on the line. They fired up the program, selected a new random phone line and started over. Line 10, which is more lines than they have, so they had to hang up on several people to cycle through to the tenth caller. “Hey, you’re the lucky caller on line 10!” “YES!! This is Tammy!!!”

Unbelievable.

She won a Zune, Microsoft’s attempt to compete with the iPod. (We may eBay it and buy an actual iPod instead.)