Blasts From the Past

 A new season of J! today -- I made sure to stop work at 7:28 to watch -- and mixed results.  I answered 45 correctly (categories favorable) but missed the Final; I knew it wasn't the Beetle (obviously) but never thought of the Vespa.  Of course, getting 45 after Masters... well, I cannot complain.  Of course, other J!-related things happened today, and we will see what happens with that.

Anyways, in other news, did some house cleaning today, and will do some more -- a plumber is coming tomorrow, so we have to clean to prove we are not bad people, or housekeepers, or something.  Or, that you are not a slob?  Men don't see dust, true.  I should have ran for five miles, given my fatness, but I had some salmon and veggies for dinner... also snax, since the blood sugar was low all day.  Ugh.  More seriously, hopefully we have a new faucet and a sink that drains.  More hopefully, I will not need new pipes, as I would prefer NOT to spend that money now on that -- there are other things to fix.  Not really my call, of course.

'Idiocracy' turns 20: How a failed comedy became an American metaphor
I saw this in the theater, and I thought it was funny as hell.  I guess I was one of the few.  To be sure, I think I realized then that it was clearly Matt humor, and the fact that it holds up... well, I am not sure what that means, though I am a student of history, and everyone views the next generation as a lost cause, to put it charitably.  Of course, I always use the Dax Shepherd quote "Because I like money," but I would say that less than half of my friends know the provenance of my love for that quote....