Rockstar, indeed. Good in-laws, every homemade biscuit!

Technically, it was a combo present for D and I, but I will use it and he will reap the rewards.

D got me one of those Shark steam mops, which sounds terribly unromantic, but warms the cockles of my Virgo heart. We have all hardwood and 5 pets, and this thing dries immediately. We also got some money, and we are seriously thinking Kindle.

You have to call on the phone to actually cancel, so maybe those folks would make me a better offer, but meh. Stupid monopolies.

I wonder if you can tell them you are considering dropping the tv part and going to internet only

Jesse, you know, they told me the same thing when I used chat again about 6 months ago. I literally logged out, tried again the very next day, got another agent, and got back down to $80 or so (internet and non-premium cable) after threatening to just plain cancel.

ALL I watch in real time is sports, and half of that is on Comcast Sports Network. I get too much joy out of baseball to completely get rid of cable. I tried the MLB network on the Roku but unfortunately I'm blacked out of anything I want to watch. (It works great for Steve in Philly, though, since both of his teams are elsewhere - Philly and SF).

OK, I will try again!

I'm back from TJ's where I ran through most of $125 worth of gift cards.

But now I have Jameson's in the house.

Plus a bunch of the yummy easy treats (brie en croute, crabcakes) as well as staples.

I spent a good chunk of the afternoon watching The Age of Believing a TCM documentary about the live-action films at Disney. I hadn't really thought about how much those movies were still around in my 70s childhood, as the Air Force Base theater showed them all in re-release, so I saw In Search of Castaways, Swiss Family Robinson and 20,000 Leagues and Darby O'Gill and Bedknobs and Broomsticks and all that on a screen.

They had interviews with all the child actors - Kurt Russell, of course, but also intereting to see Hayley Mills (still very cute) and Karen Dotrice (the young girl in Mary Poppins. As an adult she's a dead ringer for J.K. Rowling.)

Snow day tomorrow!! Do you think stores will be open? I kind of hope not, for the employees' sake, but will be looking to get out of the house at some point...

OK, what? Washing machine cleaner??

The world has gone mad.

I spent a good chunk of the afternoon watching The Age of Believing a TCM documentary about the live-action films at Disney. I hadn't really thought about how much those movies were still around in my 70s childhood, as the Air Force Base theater showed them all in re-release, so I saw In Search of Castaways, Swiss Family Robinson and 20,000 Leagues and Darby O'Gill and Bedknobs and Broomsticks and all that on a screen.

I'd wanted to watch that, but only noticed it after it was half over. I guess they'll show it again. The neighborhood where my family vacations in Maine has a community center with various sorts of activities, and when I was a kid, they'd have kids' activities in the evenings once or twice a week so that our parents could have a night out. There was a movie night every other week, and I guess they figured that most people were only there for two weeks and thus would only send kids to movie night once, so they'd show Pete's Dragon every time. We were there for a month, several summers in a row, and I ended up nearly memorizing that movie.