The fifteen-year-old rolled her eyes, sighed, and said:

"I wish I were like other kids and had normal parents!

Here I am, surfing the internet, conducting conversations with people I've never met in real life...
...and over on the couch, the Lady Margaret is using her Stereopticon to view various Uplifting and Ennobling Views of the Great War.

(She was thinking about buying some more stereo views on eBay, and thought she should review the ones she owned.)

Bad enough having to own a minivan, worse is having to keep it up to spec.

Maggie was loading crap into the hatch of the MPV when the left strut failed. The hatch is heavy.

The gas strut is bolted to the car, but has a ball-and-socket fitting bolting the other end to the hatch (to give it enough degrees-of-freedom); the ball sheered off from the ( Read more... )