Random Fodder

Perhaps I'll get into the habit of posting movie reviews based on comments from my family . . .

Last night, we watched The Family Stone, another holiday family get-together movie. In general, I enjoy this genre of movie because they show the quirks, embarrassments, and fights that are inherent in most families, but they also show the love that inextricably binds them together.

This is my mother's one-line review of The Family Stone:

I didn't like the beginning when they were all being mean, but it got better when they started fighting.

So, there you have it. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has surely been waiting for my mom's review of this one.

Reconstructed from cave paintings

My mother turns 50 years old today. Fifty years!

I guess that means I'm starting to get old, too, but I won't hit my milestone for another 11 months.

Today, mom turns 50, but here are some other ways to look at her age:

• 600 months
• 0.5 century
• 2,608.94 weeks
• 18,262 days
• 438,301 hours
• 26,298,073 minutes
• 1,577,884,380 seconds
• 0.20 Plutonian year
• 0.30 Neptunian year
• 1.70 Saturnian years
• 4.20 Jovian yars
• 26.58 Marsian Years
• 81.17 Venusian years
• 207.53 Mercurian years
• 263 million blinks of an eye

Time marches on. Hopefully, my mother will, too.