Eggcelent Eggs

I've always felt that Easter eggs have a pretty tenuous connection with Easter (More with Ishtar, perhaps?) but they're still fun to do. We didn't even start these until about 9:00 the night before — they were still warm as we decorated them — but they came out pretty nice nonetheless.

Deborah's (left) and mine (right)

Paul's (left) and Fiona's (right)

Aiden's first Easter egg.

That's my boy!

This afternoon, May gave Aiden some "Hoppin' Hot Habanero" kettle chips — the ones that ended up requiring a warning in front of them at my birthday party — and he loved them! He kept coming back for more! I'm so proud of him.

¡Piñata!

OK, I took my swing. Your turn!

It took a bit to get the kids to understand. We told Aiden to hit it with the bat, and he tapped it gently as everyone cheered. Some of the other kids refused to do it at all, horrified that we were going to break this thing. Once the candy started flying, however, they caught on...

Where is this thing? I can't find it!

I got a bit of a surprise while I was getting my three hits in — a strange trickling sensation on my head! Matt Williams later confessed. I said it was a very brave thing to do to a guy who was holding a bat...

A hit, a palpable hit! Mike Carl takes a chunk off the piñata.

Paul, however, was the one that finally brought it down.

Gotta start somewhere!

Quick — name a movie or show directed by Tim Burton, starring James Earl Jones and Leonard Nimoy.

You're probably thinking to yourself, "What kind of movie is that? A creepy Halloween-sci-fi-political thriller?" ...ah, think back further, before those guys got defined in their signature roles and styles. Now, imagine them in extremely low-budget productions — you've seen more elaborate props at a high-school play. Imagine them acting melodramatic — complete hams.

This is the joy of watching Faerie Tale Theatre. Shelley Duvall, executive producer, didn't spend a lot of money on these things, but she had an uncanny knack for picking actors who would go on to be big names in Hollywood. May got the whole collection for Christmas, and we've been watching them on nights when it's too late to start a full-length movie, but want to watch something.

Tomorrow night, Robin Williams as the frog in the Frog Prince...

I don't feel that old, though

For those of you who count in binary, I am 100000 years old today. For those of you that don't... well, there are only 10 types of people in the world: those that can count in binary, and those that can't. :-)

I do wonder what's going to become of my birthday party this evening; we had initially planned for outdoor games in the backyard with my friends and their kids, but with near-freezing temperatures and 50-mph gusts, we might have to find a different location. Indoor piñata, anyone?

5 minutes

It takes about five minutes for two adults to re-roll half a roll of toilet paper. Guess how we know?

Done! Well, almost.

I handed off the inside pages of You Know You're an MK When... to the printer this morning.

Huzzah!

Now I just need to update the covers.

Could this be a first?

For work, I created a drop-down website menu. Nothing new, right? Ah, but have you ever seen a drop-down menu in cuneiform? I thought not! Check it out here.

I'm to blame for some of the other stuff on that page, too.