Lion and Magic Boy

I’ve got you on the edge of your seats, haven’t I? Suffice it to say that Day One: Seige From Across the Street has been pretty much exactly What I Expected.

I’ll leave that to your imagination, sorry.

In other news: when I put Eric on his bus yesterday to go off to his preschool where he makes igloos out of sugar cubes and glues stuff nearly every day judging by the fequency of glue on his fingers, and has learned to eat a sandwich! by himself! taking bites without choking! and someone made him use two hands!, as I was finished buckling him he waved at me and said “Mama bye”. First Time! Two words!

In more news: No news on the cat front. I dutifully exchanged a rather large “sample” for a vial of tiny evil pills last night from the weird little specimen box outside the vet’s office-slash-house, and administered one of said evil pills to the equally evil and growling but blanketed cat last night, but I’ve no news about the consistency or contents of said sample, although this dearth of information could have been caused by the fact that I failed to include a check along with the sample, and isn’t there something about leaving paper bags of poop on people’s doorsteps? (At least I didn’t ring the bell)(Or light the bag on fire)

And in still more news: Nathaniel has come home claiming that “everyone” (read: one of his friends) is playing an online role-playing adventure game called “Runescape”. So naturally I cave and agree to look into it. It turns out you must be at least 13 to play it (he’s 11), so already I am not liking this game because 1.) what is so bad about it that it forever bans you from signing up if you mistakenly (or honestly) claim you are, say, 11? and 2.) his friend(s) have lied about their age(s) in order to play the game, and do I really want Nathaniel to be friends with kids who lie? So I agree, reluctantly, to use a different browser and to sign up as someone older, say, 43 (that’s not me, of course, just a random age, why would you even think that? How old did you think I was, then? WHAT???! Are you kidding???! Fine. Just.Fine. [look of disgust] See if I ever read your blog again, and you can just forget about that link, bucko!!), and give him several almost-identical lectures about never revealing passwords or personal information to anyone in this game, that an official person would never ask this information, that things are not always what they seem, blahdeblahdeblah. So I wield the mouse and do all the signing-up but he chooses a user name, password, and attributes, and off we go, learning about this game. So far it looks harmless enough, but I am of course concerned about what he will do if a fellow player walks up to him and starts screaming obscenities. If you know anything about this game, I’d appreciate it if you could drop me a line about it before I let Mr. Innocence And Light be besmirched by a computer.

[tags] developmental delay, speech, down syndrome, ass cork, cats, pills, Runescape [/tags]