My son turns the television on, and what should pop up on the screen, but the remake movie of Leave It To Beaver.  Who needs the internet for advice, when they can learn everything they ever needed to know the old-fashioned way, from tv.

I am considering the recommendation to hang feeders all around the house.  It’s one of those suggestions that sounds so promising - a real time saver.

But in the growing boy’s defense, I don’t have to poke pasta down his gaping mouth every time it opens.  Like just now.

“Dad, do we have outlines?”
“Outlines?  What do you mean, outlines?”
“You know - outlines.  Black outlines, like they have on Rugrats or Chalk Zone or The Wild Thornberrys.”
“What do you think we are?  Cartoons?”

Actually, I think he might have been trying to distract me.  For someone who didn’t own many of the properties on the Junior Monopoly board, he sure seemed to be accumulating huge sums of money.