Great day in th' morning

First of all, blessed Beltane, all, before I have to append the word "belated" to that.

It's been a Long Weekend of Excitement, all told. I spent several days hanging out with the kidlings and herding them to and from their various obligations. On the plus side, there was almost no inter-sibling bickering or fisticuffs, and we plowed through two seasons' worth of Monty Python's Flying Circus; in the debit column, however, we have one suspension from bus privileges for punching a verbal bully (second offense) and one grounding for repeated and blatant disregard of curfews, aggravated by lying so transparently that it was downright insulting. Oh, well, we'll call it an overall win.

figmentj, however, has won the Exciting Weekend Award by at long last finishing her senior thesis (squeebounce!), largely by keeping a working schedule guaranteed to foster hallucinations and a tendency to answer direct questions with random statistical formulae. Join me in the squeebouncing, and in welcoming her back into daylight!

Also, I had Honey Comb cereal for the first time in two decades. Is it just me, or do they pre-stale that stuff for longer shelf life?