What you’re seeing are the twin punctures that a chatty phlebotomist required to get the job done today at the lab. Sitting patiently with my right arm in a rubber tourniquet, I watched her go through the motions of drawing my blood as she rambled incessantly about the People magazine article on Britney Spears that she had just finished on her break only moments earlier. Intent on giving me all of the Spears dirt, the young lady pulled the needle out of my arm without considering the other vial that still needed to be filled. She cheerfully provided a fresh needle for puncture #2 upon my request.

Three things are true now that weren’t this morning. One, I look slightly more like a junkie.  Two, I know more than I need to know about Britney Spears. 

Three, and of infinitely more importance than the other two combined, is I learned that Oops I Did It Again was recorded in 1932 by Louis Armstrong.  Now that's trivia worth knowing.

We do learn from mistakes.  I wonder when Satchmo was last mentioned in People.