Random Access

Thursday – 15 December 2011
It’s a grey and foggy NBN Thursday in the valley. (Thanks, inversion!)

Last night, the girls were winding down by the time I got home.  Actually, they had pretty much wound down… just in time to be awakened to eat. They ate and returned to sleepy mode, by way of “I can’t get comfortable” mode. They finally settled down and dozed for a bit before it was time to get them all set for bed. That went fairly painlessly. The “going to sleep” part was a little more difficult, at least for Vanessa — she had gone past “sleepy” and straight into “too tired to do anything but cry A LOT.” Not fun. SaraRules! sat with her and got her calmed down enough to nod off. She still took a while to fully go to sleep, but she did. Eventually.

Chris came over just after Vanessa started her meltdown. We were, ostensibly, going to play dolls. Neither of us had assembled teams for the scenario that I’d come up with, so we wound up sitting around and hashing out more details for the scenario. We may give it a go Saturday afternoon, if time permits.

Stray Toasters

• Who’s the new owner of Mattel’s 12-figure Legion of Super-Heroes set?  This guy.
• Like Ivies, Berkeley Adds Aid to Draw Middle-Class Students
• Yeah, I’m just waiting for this to happen…

  

• LEGO’s new line of toys for girls
  I’m not sure that this was really necessary. I’ve known many girls – including my niece, Grace – who play with LEGO toys. But, I have to give LEGO some credit for trying to fill a gap, whether it’s a real one or not.
• Joe Simon, Captain America Co-Creator, R.I.P. 2011

  

• Correlation or Causation?
• This is the dawning of the
  Age of Aquarius Apocalypse
  Age of Apocalypse
  Apocalypse!
  Apocalypse!
  
• A Christmastime Price War — Over a Toy Ray Gun

And now, to the office holiday lunch/party/extravaganza/thingamabob…

Namaste