I overslept a bit because yesterday just. didn't. end. I was woken at 6AM yesterday by my brother dropping off his 6-year-old daughter so he (and my older nieces & BIL) could drive to Sacramento for a metric century bicycle ride.
So I was up, with a 6-yo. With no shoes, because her father had forgotten them. I cut down a pair of throwaway flip-flops from a nail parlor for her, and we took the dog for a short walk, then made pancakes, then cleaned up, then went to Target for shoes. Then we spent 3 hours at Children's Fairyland (which I do not understand why Disney hasn't sued their pants off yet), then I drove to San Jose for her to play hockey (in which she mostly skated around in circles outside the play), and then drove back to my sister's house, and then went home & fed the dog and slept for 40 minutes, then went back to my sister's house for a birthday party for the 22-yo niece, then drove Dad home, then utterly collapsed. OMG what a day.
Today I have run, and bought some groceries, and made yogurt-curry egg salad, and mixed up fruitcake, which is now in the oven. Now to do laundry and vacuum and clean up the many many dirty bowls from the fruitcake-making, and somewhere find the time to look at all the election stuff so I can vote.
Oy. Makes me tired just thinking of it.
This is not putting me in a more productive mood.
ETA I meant football, but your day is also making me tired, Consuela. That is a lot!
Can you believe Brees just made that first down?
OK, I just put away several weeks' worth of worn-once clothes, so that's good.
Children's Fairyland (which I do not understand why Disney hasn't sued their pants off yet)
As aggressive as Disney's lawyers are, they haven't quite managed to obtain trademarks for all the public domain fairy tales. Yet.
I'm looking at an error a customer is having with our program. This line looked like it had potential:
at Sketch.Busi.Base.SendVisitorToAllChildren(Visitor visitor)
Poor Visitor. The children will be horrible to him.
they haven't quite managed to obtain trademarks for all the public domain fairy tales. Yet.
If you skate close to identifiable depictions but not too close, you can manage to stay clear. There should be a whole different class for Disney's people. There's lawyers, then there's sharks, then there' Disney Lawyers.
Children's Fairyland (which I do not understand why Disney hasn't sued their pants off yet)
Because Walt famously (infamously?) got the idea for Disneyland from gong to Children's Fairyland in the first place?
Theo, I don't think I've said it, but you're being a wonderful friend. I hope the orng cat's mom gets the assistance she needs.
As aggressive as Disney's lawyers are, they haven't quite managed to obtain trademarks for all the public domain fairy tales. Yet.
Yes, except Fairyland's Snow White looks identical to Disney's, the Dwarfs have the same names, and they sing a snatch of the Disney song. Same for the Alice & Wonderland section, which looks strikingly like the Disney version.
Disney is notoriously litigious, and my only explanation is that it's a 70-year-old nonprofit and a lawsuit would probably put them out of business.
