Milton?

It took a while but I finally found out why Kaz was calling me Milton recently when I played in one of my boxes.  But before I explain, I just need to take a second to say how strange my humans are (sometimes).  They delight in knowing what they call Trivia … and they even used to go out and play it on Monday nights … but that was before the COVID lockdowns changed life as they know it and brought about a “new normal”.  Hmmm … except that they are home more and they keep more food on hand for me – and toilet paper for them – it hasn’t changed all that much here for me!

It is now getting a little bit back to normal in that they have been able to go back to their Trivia … except it’s not their Trivia any more.  They went back last week and they keep talking about the new “format” and the new “host”.  And they have started doing more Trivia “research” by asking each other questions off the interweb and coming up with random “facts” … like “What was the name of Schrödinger’s cat?”.  (And what are those two dots above that o called?) And that’s where Milton comes in … from what I understand, it wasn’t the name of “the” cat from Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger’s famous “experiment” because it wasn’t really an experiment – more of a discussion … but Milton was the name of a cat Schrödinger had. Phew … and believe you me, Kaz took longer than that to explain it!