Friday, Jan. 19, 2007

Make a Wish...


I know I've been doing a lot of entries where I jump around a lot, a thought here, a thought there. I call it brain fluff. Like, when you blow on a dandelion that's gone to seed and the fluff swirls all over the place, eventually settling on something and being re-enveloped. Or else, planting itself someplace where it eventually makes more fluff, and the cycle repeats.

Scattered as I've been lately, this is the best I've got. You want high-brow, watch public television.

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You know there's really, really nothing on tv when you leave it on TV Land while it's playing "The Jeffersons". I'm just saying.

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My daughter is well on her way to becoming a World-Class web surfer. She can manipulate a mouse, knows what buttons to click for forward and back, and can get around the Disney, Noggin and Teletubbies websites like nobody's business. I just sit in the computer chair, put her on my lap, pull up one of the aforementioned pages and let her do her thing. She loves the coloring/painting activities, and has better pointer precision than I ever will. She's two. I'd be embarrassed, except mostly I'm just impressed by her mad clicking skillz.

There's a game on the Noggin site that involves dressing a character from the cartoon "Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!". (Link here if you'd like to go look.) Basically, you choose from a variety of pants, shirts, shoes, glasses and hats to get Walden, who starts out attired in a pair of tighty-whiteys, ready to go outside. Kidlet played this one over a few dozen times, with poor Walden usually looking like a reject from a thrift store. An example of an outfit would be:

*white football uniform pants
*an orange dress with flowers on it
*two-tone rust/pink colored platform shoes
*a purple king's hat with white fur trim
*round, electric blue Elton John glasses

But she really enjoys making this poor guy look like a fashion fool, so let's have at it!

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And... that's all I've got for right now. It's getting late, and I'm way tired. Hopefully, you're on your way to sleep, too...

saturncat at 10:22 p.m.

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