My work here is done. *beams proudly*

[imbecamiel]

So, the other night we were watching NCIS. Crime show, about navy cops, very definitely set in the real world. In the intro, it shows one of the characters looking into an iris scanner. What does Mom ask?

"Why are there lasers coming out of his eyes?"

*huge grin*

Yep, we have done well - the sci-fi mindset is now thoroughly entrenched. Believe me, considering our mom's very low interest in such things, it took some doing, too. ;D

In other news... Karate promotions were last night! Not too bad, considering the far-more-than-expected chunk of time we wound up taking off over Christmas/New Year's etc. due to some big snowstorms. And I'm a blue belt now! *bounces* Which means this is my eighth belt, with six more to go before black belt. That's... kinda hard to believe. Huh.

Bit of excitement this morning. It's garbage day, and some idiot vandal decided to go down our street and knock over and/or break all the garbage bins on our street. People. *sighs* Ours is totally useless now, so we're gonna have to get a new one. Still working out with the garbage company who's paying for what, and we had to have the police out here to take a look at things and make a report. Policeman was really nice and helpful, said in thirty years he's never seen anything quite like this around here. LOL, took him a while to get here, though, because turning a corner his car slid on the ice and went partway into the ditch. Ah, winter...

Anywho, back to work for me! Hehe, I think I may actually be a little ahead of schedule at the moment... because I sort of freaked out just a little yesterday, feeling like I was getting behind. Ahem. So yay! But now I have to contact tech support for my antivirus today, because I'm getting stupid errors over an important update. So, don't know how big a chunk of the day that's gonna take up. Bleh. 

Comments

[scarvenartist.livejournal.com]

LOL! Ah, it is so fun, when your family starts having those automatically geeky moments....indeed, you have trained them well. *bg*

Oh, congrats at your steadily growing karate skills! Wow...that is so amazing that you're really not that far from black belt. O.o How long have you been taking lessons again? I almost can't believe it's been very long, since it seems like not too long ago that you started, but I'm guessing it's been about two years or so? Wow.

*boggles* Someone vandalized your neighborhood?! Good grief! How completely senseless. I hope things get straightened out, and especially that it doesn't happen again. *shakes head* Crazy people....

[imbecamiel.livejournal.com]

Hehe, yup, you know it has truly sunk in when it becomes reflexive like that. *g*

And thanks! :D Yeah, it's kinda... really hard to believe, that we're moving along so steadily. We've been taking lessons for, mmm, just under a year and a half, now. We were told when we started that, if you're doing well and getting to classes regularly, it generally takes between two and three years to reach black belt. So. We shall see. :)

Bleh, yep. I mean... wrecking garbage bins? Of all the senseless... *sighs* I'd like to wish the person (or people) responsible will be caught, but I'm afraid the most we can likely hope for is that it won't happen again. :P