This Happened · 30 March 2003

Some time this weekend – during the time it took for my aging, perforated brain to wrap itself around (come to accept, perhaps) the fairly rudimentary and time-proven concept that a variable created inside a function won’t necessarily be available the next time the function is called, particularly if called from an entirely different document – a Rubbermaid food container containing carrot and celery sticks in water slipped to the back of the fridge and began to freeze.

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