Is Cookie destined to be a geneticist?

Has Joe-maha ever gotten his complimentary Play-Doh to stand at attention?

Will Frylock ever get that spatula pried from his grasping fist?

There was a thunderstorm this afternoon that knocked out power for more than two hours, giving Dr. Sfingi some time away from work. I read the newspaper. And listened to the boys fight.

I'm attempting to refinish our 40-something-year-old dining room table -- it is in the basement broken down into its component parts. I applied caustic stripping solution to its surface over the weekend with limited success. Tonight I bought wood chisels at K-Mart (sucks) and spent a good part of the evening giving the table's claw-feet a much-needed pedicure. I've reached the bare wood of one claw foot -- which started out a size 9 EEE and is now more like a 7 narrow-width. This project should only take me a few years. We'll eat off milk crates until then.