Tried to take a nap, but I can't sleep, so you're the lucky beneficiary. Happy Father's Day...

You know, thinking of Father's Day, which I wasn't really, but it's a decent transitional device, so, thinking of Father's Day: a long time ago a neighbor lent me a videotape of the cable TV program Baby Story (we don't have cable). We didn't want this, but she thought we'd be interested, as we were about to have one. A baby, not a cable TV program.

Anyway, this program, which may still be on the air for all I know, followed one family (from the Los Angeles area only, for budgetary reasons) as they had their baby, from conception to birth. (The viewer isn't present for the conception, but my gosh, are you ever present for the birth.) It was all over in an hour, whereas now, in the era of Survivor, they probably follow several different families for an entire season and give prizes to the family that manages not to slug the self-important host or something. I'm losing my thread, pardon me (where's the sewing machine?).

One of the episodes we watched featured a well-to-do California couple who were very eager to have children. In order to make it happen quickly, they started eating macrobiotic foods. "And you know," they said earnestly, "eating macrobiotically really did the trick. We conceived right away!"

Do they teach logic in Southern California? Maybe you conceived right away because you were having unprotected sex! Worked for us, anyway...