Seeing Things In A New Light

It's been snowing, or raining, or windy, dark and dreary here forEVER! It makes my burning desire to travel through warm, sunny Central America this Summer even stronger.  I'm pretty uncertain about traveling alone given I have no Spanish speaking skills beyond counting to ten, asking directions to the bathroom and buying beer. But, I'm going! Originally, my son was going to go with me, but then he got selected to participate in this unusual study where he is going to consume nothing but large quantities of Vitamin A2 and some weird liquid meal, Soylent, for ninety days.  This in hopes of being one of the first humans to see things in a new light - infrared light, to be precise - like fish who live in the darkest realm of the ocean.

Wreck-It Ralph

I *hate* Ralph. It was because of Ralph that I spent the day trapped in my bedroom.  Why? (You ask.) Are you ill?  No. Only sick in the head...because I said yes to having a puppy in the house.  A "gift" from the ex-spouse to the children.  A horrible, terrible gift.  A gift that kept growing...and growing...and eating...and chewing...and now, barking.. incessantly barking.  Why? Why does he bark? Because he is a 9 month old herding dog type creature who should be living on a farm in Scotland and NOT living in suburbia even with a walk a day.  Let me tell you how we "acquired' said puppy....