Happy Birthday Tom!

Well, it will be on the 9th, but since we held his party yesterday I'm not gonna quibble about it.

Lovely party it was too. We rented a pavilion at Centennial Park in Columbia, primarily so Mom & Dad could make it (since there's just no way Dad could ride all the way up to Finksburg and back). Most of Tracy's family came by, along with my sister Rae, and our friends Elena & Jim and Monica and her kids. Steve cooked the food so that he could avoid everybody.

Swagwise Tom got a fire engine, a Sit & Spin, a basketball hoop, soccer ball, and lotsa clothes. So we aren't overwhelmed iwth toys, which will make triaging what he already has a bit easier.

Land of the Lost = Star Trek: TOS

Well, not really. Unless you want to do a more-bizarre-than-usual crossover (Fanboy: "No, you see, the Pylons and the Matrix tables are actually part of the Guardian of Forever's control system! The Marshalls kept mucking with them so that's why ST's continuity is so eff'ed up!")

Anyway, what they *do* have in common is that (for the first season at least) they gave actual Science Fiction writers a chance to write scripts for a sci-fi TV program. I knew Larry Niven and David Gerrold had written episodes of LotL, but I hadn't realized that the show also had scripts by the likes of Ben Bova, Norman Spinrad, and Theodore Sturgeon (and Walter Koenig, but he barely counts).

All this coming from the bizarre minds of Sid and Marty Krofft no less.