Amuse-bouche:

Un jeu de mots : Comment ca va ? Commence, Ava.

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Today’s Wonderful Word: “halcyon.”

Definition: characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity; calm or peaceful.

Another meaning: a bird identified with the kingfisher and held in ancient legend.

Example: Ancient sailors believed the halcyon would calm the seas, bringing peace to their journeys across tumultuous waters.

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Irony (?)

• Someone wrecks a bike while trying to put their helmet on. 
• Someone claims to be a good driver, uses Drive Safe and Save with their insurance company, installs it incorrectly, it falls from their windshield while they’re driving, and they get in a wreck trying to replace it.
• Animal tracking technology that measures multiple data points of an animal’s daily activities. We tested it on rats, but it weighed them down to the point where they couldn’t move.
• No one likes conflict of interest. Except for those interested in conflict.
• A blind optometrist
• A dentist with bad teeth
• An obese nutritionist
• A chiropractor with poor posture
• Attending a lecture on the third floor in a building without an elevator. The lecture topic: mobile handicaps. 
• Drink a sleep aid before bed, and then it makes you wake up in the middle of the night to go pee. 
• You’re at the car wash and your window gets stuck down after you roll it down to pay at the kiosk.
• You spill calming essential oils all over yourself when you’re in a rush. You have to change, and then you’re stressed about being late. 
• Choking on pills that were meant to heal.

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Answer to Saturday’s riddle:

It has each number, zero through nine, listed in alphabetical order.