Life Is Different Now: Some lady from another country called my house yesterday doing a phone survey. Her only criteria was that she wanted to talk to somebody who'd been to the movie six times in the past 18 months.

So, like, why isn't anybody calling and asking how many "Disney Storytime" books I've read? Or how many Lil' Critters or Curious George books I've gone through? Or how many episodes of Dora The Explorer, Elmo's World, or Scooby-Doo I've seen?

Should have called me a decade ago.