Family moments

I'm listening to my daughter and my younger brother in the family room the "TV room", voice training a robotic dog that has been collecting dust for months (like much of what I own).

My brother has been in Europe for what seemed like forever, but has actually been...almost three years? It's really great to have him back, if just for a short while. He will return to Germany on September 11, having chosen the date only partly in irony.

It has been a fun day and a half so far - he has her holding out her hand straight before her, straight and verticle, fingers pointed toward you, saying "trial lawyers!!!", even after having protested that our doing this was becoming quite annoying. She uses her best Georgia accent, and ends up sounding not like Zell (who, it turns out, wasn't actually the source of that particular tirade at the convention, but nevermind the convolution), but rather like the John Turturo character in "Secret Window". That's actually an observation that *she* made, when she followed a hilarious "trial lawyers!!!" with a comparable "you stole my story!"

Good times, good times.