Mike has stepped up as a co-author for our NaNoWriMo 'novel in 30 days' challenge. I think we'll wait to see what we end up with before naming the book, but in the mean time, we need a nickname for it. How about 'NevNugNov'? Hmmm.

Watched "STTNG: The Naked Now" (episode 3, airdate: week of 10/5/1987) on VHS last night, starring Wil Wheaton (not just featuring - Wesley was the star, actually saved the ship).

Has anyone else tried the "Shrek 2"-themed Ogre Green Twinkies? They're a little unsightly, but still taste great.

We got the cutest, little, yellow, stuffed, soft dump truck Tonka chair for Jared last night at Wal*Mart. He loves to climb on it (and subsequently roll off), it's a hit! =)

I think Wal*Mart needs to cater to the people that buy a lot of items, not just the ones that buy a few. I'm talking about the checkout lanes. With all the 5 items or less, 10 items or less, and 20 items or less lanes, it's almost like they don't want you to buy a lot. If you do, on the other hand, you're punished by having to experience a horrendously long checkout process. They ought to provide '100 items or more' lanes also, so that if you've got two carts full of stuff, you can still get checked out as fast as the guy with only 20 items. This could be done in several configurations, including a circular conveyor belt with multiple checkers, or simply a double or triple checker lane: you unload your cart(s) onto the moving belt that moves slowly past each of the checkers. If the first checker is busy scanning something else of yours, the item moves to the next checker who grabs it, and so forth. Three people could be ringing up your stuff all at the same time, and it all gets totalled at the very end onto one receipt. In the computer world, this is called distributed or parallel processing. So why not in real life??