For the longest time, I used to see those Admiral Akbar icons with "It's a trap!" on them. Fewer people around here, fewer icons to see and wonder what they're about. Anyway, thanks to Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory (and, well, Google), I know slightly more about what's going on in those icons, and it's what got repeated in my head over the ( Read more... )

Some families do a deep cleaning once a year. We go once a decade. But boy, do we make it count. Alas, we appear to create more work for ourselves in the process, but that's part of the fun. *cough ( Read more... )

Mom had the day off yesterday, and after the initial tree-downing excitement* went off to run errands for a few hours. So, I was alone around 2:30-ish, sending an email to a camp person, when I heard this *thunk!* from the vicinity of the garage. In front of mom's parking space is the snowblower, and my father has given her crap recently about ( Read more... )

An amusement from last week: On the Indiana channel--don't ask--they had this concert. Of Elvis. He was performing via a projection screen. There was a live band performing with him. And there were people in the audience taking pictures ( Read more... )