For years I have been trying to figure out if there really was a show or if I had made it up about these detective kinda like Drag Net but they solved math problems. I was also pretty sure one episode involved a gorilla, well a man dressed as a gorilla. Noone else I have ever talked to about it has ever remembered it at all. Then today I'm looking at wikipedia about Zoobillee Zoo and what is on the bottom as related but SQUARE ONE TELEVISON and I was like I think that's it. And so I go to the page and it was. It was a whole show about math on PBS from 1987-1994 and each episode ended with an episode of Mathnet. I still haven't found mention of a gorilla but this is definitely it! It feels so good to finally find it and know I didn't make it up. I could always picture it so vividly I knew it had to be real .

P.S. I just found it on a fan website episode 100-105 the episode of the missing monkey:
    
1.2 "The Problem of the Missing Monkey"
Episodes 101-105. Rerun in 136-140.
Directed by Charles S. Dubin
Co-Starring Yeardley Smith (Jane Rice-Burroughs), Dale Park (Grunt), J. Downing (Stock Boy), Lou Cutell (Store Manager), Dick Wilson (Grocer), Paul Tuerpe (Pie Balboa), Joseph Whipp (Buck Clyde), Sandy Gimpel (Stunt Double - Jane), Mike Cassidy (Stunt Double - George)
The Mathnetters are in the midst of a wild caper when local grocery stores report being robbed -- first food, later money -- by a gorilla. In a major twist, Grunt the gorilla is reported missing from the zoo. Jane Rice-Burroughs, Grunt's best friend, claims that Grunt could never have robbed the stores, and fake gorilla tracks found in a pizzeria support her claim. When gorilla sightings are made in different places at the same time, Kate and George conclude that a man, Janos Prokedzion, committed the robberies in a gorilla suit using kidnapped Grunt as a scapegoat. However, while Prokedzion pretends to be Grunt at the zoo, Grunt, having really escaped from Janos, climbs the Hollywood Sign and puts the mistaken George in grave danger.

so at big lots yesterday I got shark bite fruit snacks. toy story shaped cheezits and the olsen twins movie double double toil and trouble. why could my basket of stuff always be confused with that of an 8 year old girl.

honey badger don't care

So about a week ago I had to have some pre-cancerous skin on my elbow removed. I guess my dark dark childhood summers and the sunburns of my post-accutane 20's had taken a toll on my skin. Anywho I had a mole removed and then they had to go deeper and wider and so I needed some stithces. The lady on the phone originally made it seem like I wouldn't be able to use my elbow afterwards (cuz that's where the mole was ) but really it ended up being not that big an area , just a few stitches and just above my elbow mostly, so just no heavy lifting or hard arm exercising for me for 2 weeks (which is my normal life anyway). Anywho that is not even the point of the story...

So I love my dermatologist and have been going to her for prolly like 10 years for all my many skin issues and so I trust her completely. But we are in the room to have it removed and she had injected and numbed the area and asked the nurse for some scalpel or something and the nurse didn't bring that size or the next smaller size so she had to to go get the right equipment. It was no big deal she just hadn't brought the bigger size cuz they thought it was a smaller area..

BUT BUT BUT the doctor then says to me "You know Murphy's Law, if something can go wrong it will go wrong" UM PLEASE don't say that seconds before you are about to cut into me. That is not reassuring. I don't care how minor the procedure don't while yielding a large cutting instrument about to enter my arm be like so casually "oh things always go wrong!" I WAS TERRIFIED...but it worked out and my arm is fine but still come on now doc.

I saw a real live skunk for the first time in my life in the parking lot tonight at work. I wanted to take a picture but was afraid of getting sprayed. it was really cute though !