If you want to restrict population size, the vampire population could be a good starting point

(The title of this post resulted from my feeling like I can’t title a post as “Here are two links.”)
Here are  two (completely unrelated) links to things I like.
First is Eric Snider’s rejected New Moon screenplay.
Second, here’s what I think is a wonderfully-written response to modern Malthusians.
I can’t resist quoting a little of the second [...]

Two more things to be grateful for

Without the hubbub about tomorrow’s holiday,

I might never have discovered that Rose routinely refers to the above animal as a “turkeybocker.”
Also, while she was starting her chore for the day, Mabel suggested to Isaac that maybe she and he should just spend the whole day at home and not play with friends, so as to [...]

Litmus test for obsessive tendencies

If you are removing the little plastic attachment that connects a tag to an article of clothing, and you find that one side of the plastic attachment piece has been inserted into the lining of the piece of clothing, so that if you cut the attachment thing, one end of it will be permanently trapped [...]

Housekeeping calculations (the kind of important post you can expect to find here when we could be readying our house for Thanksgiving)

A couple of nights ago Dean helped me put clean sheets on our king sized bed. King sized beds are (for reasons known only to persons other than myself) not square, and after we’d put the sheet on, we realized that it should have been rotated a quarter-turn clockwise to fit correctly, but we [...]

I think I’m just so funny (warning: this post may not be suitable for those with a sense of decorum and decency)

I just left this as the 120th comment on this post of Kristina’s (in which she interviews characters from the “Twilight Saga”) and I thought it would be a shame to leave it languishing there where no one would read it.  Because, speaking of shame, apparently I have none:
So, speaking of Jasper getting his cycle, [...]

Prickings of conscience

I hope I didn’t shock anyone too much in that last post when I called my children “horrible.”  I do realize that in fact, they were just acting like normal children.
(Which is to say, horrible.)

No, Susanna, you can’t have my baby. But there are four other kids here you can borrow for a day. Or a month.

Let’s say you get your carpets cleaned and stain-treated, and you carefully explain to your kids that they can only walk on the carpet in their bare feet until the carpet dries completely.  They must not walk on the carpet while wearing socks.  Let’s say that you assume that this will be sufficient instruction.  Let’s [...]

We get croup, you get lots of photos of Hazel

Mabel’s croup is all but gone, but she still has some hoarseness and an occasional cough.
Hazel’s breathing sounds raspy at night and her voice is ragged, but she’s past the stage where we’re frightened for her.
Henry’s freshly sick, and Dean was worried enough to take him to InstaCare this morning, where they gave him some [...]

The mind of an engineer

Dean sent this invitation via email to the 13 students who work for him:
I would like to invite you (and spouse or fiance) to eat dinner with my family and have a family home evening on [upcoming date.] We will meet at [restaurant] for a group dinner and then will come back to my [...]

Your technology tip for the day

Say your (much depended-upon) backspace key is getting slower and slower. So you search online, and learn that you can go into your Start Menu, then your Control Panel, then your Keyboard settings, and change the response on the keys to “fast.” And you do that (or anyway you leave it at “fast” [...]