Super Marios theme played by remote-controlled car

This makes me happy, and not just because they are muttering Japanese in the video. It just has a happy sound texture. (Why are all youtube links/videos loading slowly today? Maybe it's just me.)

This post's theme word: velleity, "a wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action."

Recovery day 2

E. and I have oft mused together over our mother's dimension-warping abilities. In a three-dimensional room, she can pack 3.2 dimensions of fabric, for example. Fractally. Somehow. None of her children has yet figured out this ability. When confronted with a need for band-aids and antibiotic ointment, she was able -- Mary Poppins style -- to pull band-aids out of several long-lost, archival compartments of her suitcase. Then she supplemented them with more medical tidbits from the 3.3-dimensional (and cross-referenced, for easy location!) car.

My camera has entered terminal failure. Pictures of the unveiling pending.


This post's theme tea I plan to design: the "supplicating botanist."