Adventures in Moving Apartments

The scenario was such that the two new occupants were both eyeing the Blue-East Bedroom over the Red-West Bedroom as her own personal sleeping abode.

The choice was clear: Blue-East perfectly frames the CN Tower between two other buildings, whereas poor Red-West does not even see the tower (nor does any other window in the apartment, unhappily). Other than this, the Apartment was a perfect choice: Shaden Manor.

But How were we to win Blue-East in a Fair and Enginerdly fashion?

Most people would flip a coin, or choose a number between 1 and 10, or roll a die for odd or even, or pick a card any card any card any card. Enginerds, on the other hand, count the number of resistors in the new apartment's smoke alarm.

The newly engineered Shaden Protocol proclaimed using the "Even-East-Karoo Rule" in such decisions, and since I was the resident expert on such a siren, the task was given to me to count away... And you know, I would have won too had I not bothered to look under the PCB -- for what else did I find there but one extra little resistor smiling back up at me? So close!

Two years later, we find ourselves with a newly replaced alarm (now evenly-numbered) and the blinds seem to be closed more often than not. Funny how little things turn out.