Timelies all!

Congrats CV!

Well, I managed to survive 3 days with my folks, including the big family get-together.(Let's just say that seeing my 3 1/2 year-old nephew jumping around, screaming and getting into everything is not making me sanguine on the prospect of having kids. Last nerve. Frayed.) Getting to see Laura and her DH helped some.

G and I exchanged Hannukkah gifts tonight. He got me two books, one of which is Lost in the Grooves.

Hmph. I got ten bucks off from Victoria's Secret for my birthday (from them), but it only works in the store. The store is scary!!

Wired's 50 best bots of all time.

Check out Number 3.

I love how seamlessly they blend fiction, fact, and toys.

Also, congrats to lori for making Wired! Getting your stuff to Mars is one thing, but this is the big time.

I love how seamlessly they blend fiction, fact, and toys.

And the Roomba. Don't forget the Roomba!

I was really kinda hoping for the Buffybot, but the Lori's mechanical arm-bot as the official third coolest bot of all time? Really amazingly cool.

Though I still think the Buffybot should have been on that list somewhere. She's way cooler than R2D2. Also, the Iron Giant should have been higher on the list. Not just because he makes me cry like a baby, which is really no great challenge, but because he makes Miracleman cry like a baby, and the bot that can do that is a mighty bot indeed.

OK, that praying Calvin might be the wrongest thing I've EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.

Uch. So glad I haven't seen these. I don't know where JZ is seeing them, but maybe I'm just instinctively looking away as they approach. Who the fuck would think Calvin is a penitent Christian?

Let me say this about that: he is not.

People should keep their spinal fluid where it belongs as Jesse recommends.

Back from bowling and cleaning out Bandai's sale-priced-to-go Teen Titans figures for Emmett. I am weary.

I have to work tomorrow. Jessica's assessment of the work-it-sucks thing seems eerily prescient. However, I'm taking Friday off. And I have next Monday off. So. Two day work week. I can make that work for me.

I got totally dissed at Polgara's xmas party, TWICE.

When she introduced me to coworkers and they asked where I worked, they would got all wide-eyed and start to ask about the damned rovers. And Polgara would step in and say, "oh, no, she's not my Rover friend."

And then NO ONE CARED.

Wired's 50 best bots of all time.

Astroboy is #2? WTF?!?

Allyson, it'll be fine. And when you get to age three, he'll not only remember you, he'll boss you around.

Listening to a cd my brother made me. I'd asked for this album, but he didn't get out and buy it. So christmas eve, he downloaded it from itunes and made me a cd. It's got extra stuff. Made me laugh when I realized what he'd done. Of course, he wrapped up all his packages from the car parts he bought with the money I sent, and we made a big production of marvelling over my exquisite taste in spark plugs.

I'm finally unpacked. Damned handlers broke a really pretty candleholder mom gave me. Hate it when that happens. It was securely wrapped, but I saw them throw the bags around. Um.

My cats are all paranoid now. My brother also gave me a gallon sized ziploc full of rather potent catnip. I'm sure the TSA found it and perhaps were skeptical of the handwritten "IT'S ONLY CATNIP."

I think he was trying to get me in trouble.