Its the Little Things

In the Out-Of-The-Blue department, I confide here that in the course of our 20-year marriage, we have, over a decade ago, with the help of a marriage counselor, determined that we must always hire someone else to mow the lawn.

It was one issue that was a cause of the majority of tension, anger (ok, more like fury) arguments and resentment for both of us.
Now, we happily pay someone else to do it, and our marriage is much more peaceful for it. We still have disagreements over other issues, but nothing like the ongoing summer-long battles over the lawn.
  And for some reason, it doesn't translate over to snow-shoveling,  even though we live in Minnesota; he is always willing to shovel the drive and I am always willing to sweep off the porches and throw handfuls of salt down.

 But grass....grass is the enemy in our marriage.

Geek Love

So yeah Ron and I are geeks, nerds and married almost 21 years. Tonight we had a great pillowtalk about the Lawful Good - Chaotic Evil alignment system and attempted to use it to class people and characters we know or have known...such as Dan Savage, Peter Hollens, Dr. Daniel Jackson (SG1), Friday Jones (from Heinlein), Chris Kluwe, Rachel Maddow, George Zimmerman, Edward Snowden, John Boehner, the Boston bombers vs. suicide bombers, my old DnD character that was an illusionist-thief and practical joker.....you know, as you do. And half the time of this chat, I was giving the husband oomox. (That is not dirty, its just nerdy.) 

So yeah, Geek Love, that's what we got right here. So any of you young awkward geeks or nerds, take comfort, loving relationships are not out of your reach. So who is looking forward to CONvergence this weekend? 

Guide on Alignments

The Alignment System