My theory…

Ok, I had long suspected it but now I have proof. My daffodils have somehow managed to tap into an unsecured wireless access point somewhere in the neighborhood AND they cannot tell when I am joking or when I am serious. I know this because:

Point 1: When I left for work this morning the daffodil buds were still firmly encased in their little tissue thin membrane and did not look like they were ready to bloom.
Point 2: While at work I posted in my journal about being frustrated waiting for them to bloom and I made a somewhat oblique threat regarding forcing them open.
Point 3: I know for a fact that my workstation here at home was locked and the firewall was fully enabled. This tells me that the machine did not access my machine directly – despite the fact that the DSL line enters the house mere inches from their little yellow heads. I know Brian’s machines were all locked down as well.
Point 4: Despite our security at home the daffodils still managed to find out about my impatience with their performance and took direct action to preserve their lives by blooming while I was at work.

The only solution that makes sense is that these daffodils are 802.11a compliant. Its entirely possible that they are 802.11b or 802.11g but I have no evidence of that kind of bandwidth use by any of the flowers in that part of the yard. The earlier, slower protocols are perfectly adequate for reading Live Journal, doing e-mail, basic web browsing or instant messaging. As long as the daffodils do not try to get into streaming media or downloading DIVX encoded movies from Usenet they will be fine.

Mental note: Make sure Daffodils are not running up my Rhapsody bill buying MP3′s while I’m at work – change Rhapsody password to one the flowers will never guess.