Re: the first one (Hell House). When I was reading the description, etc. I kind of thought of Devil's Playground, which was pretty entertaining.
The Wholly Incandescent Candace likes puppies. I like robots (for the sake of this, ignore robots shaped like puppies). As a set-up for a sit-com: a robot person watching someone's puppies while they are on vacation or vice versa. Or a married couple separately brings home a puppy and a robot on the same day as a surprise for the other. At first, the puppy would be afraid of the robot. Then it would start tugging on the small plastic or metal pieces of the robot or licking the robots LED lights on their "face" or the top of their smooth plastic dome. At the end of the episode it would show the robot stowed in the corner while its battery charges and the puppy would be curled up next to it because it gets warm when the batteries are charging. It would be just like a perfectly perverse calendar picture. This is something I would expect on, say, Full House or another show that relies on a lot of audience "ahhhhhh"s.
I found a 30 year old systems engineering and network analysis textbook stuck in with some technical manuals (reading these technical manuals is bit like eating beauty bark). I've begun working my way through the book to help deal with the dripping nothingness that seems to mark my days. This is only relevant because there were some math classes that I wanted to take but didn't get to because I was a math department outsidah - 514 and the 407/408/409 series. And I feel so enriched now that I'm finally learning this stuff that I wanted to learn. But it could all just be residual excitement from the vacuum cleaner purchase.
