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Wordless Wednesday: Who Is This Very Tall Person With Huge Feet Living In My House??
Contributing To The Geekiness Of Minors, Part 2

Back in November I confessed my decision to introduce Luke and Elizabeth to that nerdalicious pinnacle of geekdom, the Star Trek franchise. I’d added Season One of the original series to our Netflix queue, and we’ve gradually been working our way through them, averaging three or four episodes a week.
It had been more than 20 years since the last time I’d watched this first incarnation of the Trek universe, and I’m surprised at how much I’m enjoying its cheesy campiness from the perspective of an old grup. Luke likes it too, although he has trouble keeping up with the plots and tends to ask questions all the way through, which necessitates heavy use of the Pause button as I attempt to explain stuff to him. Elizabeth doesn’t have any trouble following the storylines, but since most of them don’t make a whole lot of sense if you examine them too closely (seriously, there are usually OBVIOUS SOLUTIONS to these people’s problems that are WAY LESS COMPLICATED than the ones the writers come up with), she is rather less enamored of the whole business than we are. But we watch it together, and somewhere in between trying to explain to Luke how Kirk is able to talk a master supercomputer into self-destructing for the good of the population it’s been controlling, and snarking with Elizabeth about the EXTREME improbability of that ever actually happening, it’s become a happy addition to our nightly routine. Elizabeth has started slipping little Trekisms into her conversations and comics. And a week or so ago I poked my head into Luke’s room and told him that if he didn’t get up and get dressed we were going to miss the school bus, to which he replied, half-awake, “But I am extraordinarily sleepy.”
Sniffle. My son has a little Vulcan in him after all. TOTALLY worth all the wedgies he’s going to get in middle school for using words like “extraordinarily.”
So now we’re coming to the end of Season 1, and I just hopped over to Netflix to add Season 2. Only to discover that Netflix doesn’t HAVE Season 2. Or Season 3. Like a heroin pusher who offers the first couple of doses for free and then cuts off the supply until the cash appears, Netflix is forcing me to either give up my new addiction family activity or hand over a pile of money to Amazon, which I SO can’t afford to do right now. It’s MONSTROUS, I tell you.
Not that I couldn’t quit any time I wanted, mind you. There are PLENTY OF OTHER geeky shows out there with which to blight my children’s social prospects. Get Smart comes to mind; the kids would adore that.
Pfah. Who am I kidding? There is no substitute for the Holy Grail of geeky goodness.
Hmm…Circuit City is going out of business, I bet I could score some Trek on Clearance there.
And after all, it’s for the children.
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Wordless Wednesday: An Attempt to Photograph my New Haircut



Snowed in
…still. We’re on Day Four now.



If I had a real car that weighed more than 75lbs I would be able to move about freely by now, but my little toy Saturn is rendered helpless by the few inches of snow that remain. A fellow from next door helped me drive/push/coax it as far as my back gate where Steve’s truck tracks end, so I think I should be able to make it to church tomorrow. Funny how much I’ve come to look forward to that every Sunday.
Yesterday my nice neighbor, who has actual grownup vehicles, was able to get out and into town, and she brought me some milk because we were running low. I have been constantly surprised and warmed by the kindness of people. In retrospect I cannot believe how socially isolated I let myself become during my marriage.
Snow damage toll: several trees lost branches, but there’s nothing too catastrophic. My stand of redshank took the heaviest damage and the big pine in my front yard comes a close second, but least nothing landed on the roof.
My house is very clean right now. I’ve had nothing else to do.
This seems like a good time to pull out all the bits and pieces that I’ve thought would be cool to blog about but weren’t worth having posts of their own. Like how Elizabeth was Student Of The Month in November, and how I’ve had to lock all the chickens back up because one bold coyote got hungry enough to come right onto the property and start stealing chickens out from under my dogs’ noses. He got two pullets before I realized what was going on and locked up the henhouse.
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Things the Internet magically knows about me:
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In a Past Life… |
![]() You Were: A Happy Go Lucky Monk. Where You Lived: Alaska. How You Died: Decapitation. |
I can totally believe that I was a monk in my past life. I can see myself now, quietly tending my garden in some sunwashed courtyard, the gentle warbling of birdsong providing a peaceful soundtrack to my simple contemplations.
But ALASKA? I. think. not.
Decapitation? Absolutely, if I lived in Alaska. The other monks got fed up listening to me whine about all the damn snow. It’s just a question of which one of them snapped first, and what sharp utensil he was holding.
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Other things the Internet magically knows about me: I am Probably A Woman.
We guess https://dsilkotch.wordpress.com/ is written by a woman (52%), however it’s quite gender neutral.
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Anagrams for “Debora Silkotch:”
Horseback Dolt I. Hmph.
Cobra Hiked Lost. Okay.
Bad Shock Toiler. Heh.
Rabid Sock Hotel. Whoa there, all our socks are freshly laundered, thankyouverymuch.
Broad Chokes Lit. Everyone’s a critic.
Ethics Look Drab. Some days…they really do.
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Here are some Google search terms that brought folks to my blog recently:
how to sleep with mice in house
Try my method: get cats
5 fosmo rules
There are rules?? Crap, I’ve probably been doing it all wrong!
“christmas” “words” “list of”
“I’ve” “included” “this one” “only” to “mock” their “unnecessary use” of “quotes.”
expecting hard what will happen to my watermelon
I feel you, my friend.
what the hell moments
This person definitely came to the right blog.
mummified baby in glasses
Um. I got nothing here.
coloring for canaries
Dude, just give him some old newspapers to read like everyone else does.
upbeat christmas snogs
I could use a few upbeat Christmas snogs myself. Where’s my mistletoe?
men in ballet flats
I…have nothing to add to that image.
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If there were any chance of anyone seeing me naked in the foreseeable future, I would totally want to do this:

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And I think that’s all I have today. Must go huddle in front of my woodstove now and thaw out my fingers.
