Author: marylowd

I strongly suggest that Buffy enlist in Starfleet. By and large, they take much better care of their employees than the Watcher’s Council.

I’ve started Elaine playing her first MMO — her avatar is a pink penguin, walking around a lighthouse, making smily face emotes.

Finally downloading the Star Trek Online beta.

I live in the kind of neighborhood where, if you’re digging a ditch in your front yard, the guy who lives across the street will come over and help fix your broken pipe. And if he doesn’t have the right size scrap of PVC, then he’ll get it from the guy who lives on the corner.

There are very few scientists on Babylon 5. And no engineers.

The one scientist is the doctor. And the episodes that focus on him are invariably the most interesting.

It’s nice having a daughter who suggests watching Babylon 5 and brings me kittens.

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See, Elaine is convinced that if I watch an episode of Babylon 5, then she gets to watch Coraline afterward.

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I’m halfway through season 2. Delenn’s hair still makes no sense. It grows straight through her skull.

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But, seriously, her HAIR grows straight through her SKULL. It’s infuriating. Continue reading “Complaining about Delenn’s Hair”

I’ve been hosting a lot of tea parties for bunnies, who like lemonade.

The problem with two-year-olds is they fall into the uncanny valley.

“My grandpa used to say cheddar cheese chunks and mathematical equations make a ladder.”

–animal wearing a blue hat in Reader Rabbit

I made Elaine alphabet pancakes for dinner. The batter held out through “U.”