February 1st, 2009:

OK, I’m just enough of a geek that when I get a new plugin to work, I do the “happydance” around the living room. The “happydance” looks a little bit like the monkey walk, which my son taught me during a trip to LasVegas. Following is a pic of the “monkey walk” which you can use for the purpose of extrapolation

Now, the bitchin new plugin that I was talking about is a “picture book” …take a look:

Everyone should have their own theme song. More importantly everyone should have their own Man from Uncle attache case transforming weapons cache. (This one’s for you Bootiesatva – isn’t it sad the lengths that I will go to just to get my blog read? I should stop this rant here, since I stand to loose all my other readers – both of them. )

I am sure that everyone has a recollection of a particular toy or a few toys that were particularly fun. I remember the Man from Uncle attache case. It just didn’t get any cooler than this.

While all our parents could do was to watch the Man from Uncle on the 24″ Quasar console, we could become him. I can even remember negotiating with my friends to determine which of us would be Illya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo respectively. This was the only neighborhood theme drama of childhood where it really didn’t matter if you were the sidekick. They were both totally, and I mean totally, unequivocally cool, boss, bitchen and a bunch of other adjectives that hadn’t even been invented yet.