I don't get 'The Big Bang Theory'.

[hunter]

74. I've never seen it. I suspect my wife and I are Big Bang kind of people, or so our kids will claim.

One of our earliest dates was to the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena to check up on the construction of the Galileo space probe.



Yep, we saw it, just like that, but without the fancy lighting. Turns out we both had friends and acquaintances working at JPL. Small world.

Star Trek was another common interest we shared. Our slash collections intersected.

And we'd both had close encounters of the disturbing kind with Harlan Ellison.

My grandpa was an Apollo engineer, he created bits of metal that are on the moon and in the Smithsonian.

My brother's godfather built some of the first ion engines tested in space. I saw the prototypes running in big-ass vacuum chambers here on earth.

Don't know where I went wrong, but my kids have plenty of material if they ever create sitcoms.

I'll pretend I get it...