The 1572 Intelligence Tracker

Bulb wattage measurements of the inhabitants of my home

first of all, let me apologize for neglecting this popular feature of the site. it has been over a year since our last update to "the tracker" so there has been quite a bit of movement amongst the participants. so, if for some reason this is your first time around on this, try and catch up by examining tracker readings one and two before leaving any input.

to make a slight adaptation to a country music song i am only vaguely aware of, geddy is "old enough to know better, but still too dumb to care." still a master of the "if... then" statement laid out so brilliantly in tracker 1, geddy knows the moment she is caught doing something wrong she will get a whoopin. in spite of that inevitable fact, if you give her a day or two to forget about it, she will go right back to the same disruptive behavior that got her in trouble in the first place.

since its inception, nobody has moved around on the tracker more than la neige. this is in spite of the fact that she is the only participant who has not changed one bit during all the readings. her position, or lack thereof, has always been dictated by the good or bad decisions made by her intelligence tracker peers. so, while we have made some new observations this time, la neige has once again done nothing other than continue to slurp off the 1572 gravy train ride she seems to be unable to fall off of. funny how given the right set of circumstances, apathy can look a lot like genius.

not to continue to put the blame somewhere else, but the longer we do this tracker thing the more i'm starting to see a correlation between my palm device and what i call "left brain shrinkage". what was at first a liberating feeling has become an irreversible liability i'm afraid. the mantra of "just live life and let palm handle all the logistics" has turned an ugly corner, and we are now proceeding full steam ahead down a road that leads to bumbling idiocy.

if you were to simply chart progress made in the past three readings, ava would be the overall leader. however, the tracker is based on slices of time and as of right now, the top slot is still out of reach.

enough of the gloom and doom forecast for kc's long-term prospects of retaining the top spot for a moment, and let's focus on the fact that for the third straight reading, kc is once again the overall leader. a remarkable achievement on the level of the atlanta braves current 13 year long division title streak. much like the braves during their streak, kc has able to maintain her position despite several team moves in the off-season. so, while she may not be winning the division by 20 games anymore, she is still coming home with the trophy

to recap, this has been a rather interesting (and difficult to write) edition of the tracker. with all the changes that have gone down since my last update, there was a lot of ground to cover... so i hope you took notes. in the future, i will attempt to keep things a little more current in here and will let you know when anything significant (like if the cat somehow passes me in the rankings) occurs. until then, please feel free to make your comments/suggestions/incoherent input in the discussion box below. thank you for stopping by.

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