Quote of the day

"They're shooting backwards at each other. It's called reverse perestroika." --the good doctor, explaining the odd behavior of myself and Becca and a large supply of the genial ammunition

Hank the Cowdog coined the term "reverse perestroika," and we just usurped it for our own purposes. :-)

After that we started discussing Boojums. Not only is the Snark a Boojum, you see, but there's a tallish cactusey thing that grows on Baja California which is also a Boojum, because the guy who named them said so. Lovely the way that works out.