Remember when I won a sports trivia contest on the jumbo-tron at the WNBA game?

My prize package finally arrived!

MARTA Swag Bag From the Dream Sports Trivia Contest I Won

I find it hilarious, and at least some of the items will be useful.

All of them are emblazoned with the logo for our local subway system. None of them have any reference to the sports team at whose game I won them. Or any other sports team.

From the top, we have: a smallish insulated lunch bag, suitable for Esmerelda Freugenspeigal’s eventual day care needs, a water bottle from a BPA free recycling category, a cup with no recycling information that will be tossed shortly, one of those recyclable grocery shopping bags, a coin purse, a desktop calendar/calculator/clock which Noah has claimed as a phone, a strangely flask shaped business card holder, something that looks like drug paraphernalia to me — mysteriously mounted on a blue plastic base, a 20-trip subway pass, and a small mirror.

And since my “check engine” light went on this evening, that 20 trip subway pass may come in very useful.

In other news, Noah got bitten at day care today. The school sent a complete report and we’re happy with how they handled it. Also, it seems like Noah might have provoked the biter by taking a toy. Not that biting is an ok response, but I can better understand it as a response to something else.

As is typically the case, the school has a confidentiality policy in which they don’t identify who bit Noah. But he can talk now, so when we asked, “Noah, did you get bitten at school today?” he answered, “E*** bite me!” We’ll try not to hold it against little E***, and hopefully it won’t happen again.