you won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules

Me, months ago: You know, it'd save on our electricity bill if we swapped all the incandescent bulbs in the house for compact fluorescents.

Dad, in reply: But it'd waste our stash of incandescents. Let's wait till we're running out of the bulbs we've got before we buy new ones.

Me: Fair enough.

Mom, today: Oh, you're going to Lowe's? Buy a bunch more incandescent bulbs while teh Ebil Gubmint still lets us.

Dad, in reply: Okay.

Me, silently: GAAAH.

So I just spent a quarter hour giving my littlest sister and her best friend a lesson in jewelry-making for their Girl Scout interest project. I realized right after they left that on my screen the whole time was the latest salt_burn_porn.