Waiting for the answer

In the novel "The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy" a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7 1⁄2 million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Deep Thought points out that the answer seems meaningless because the beings who instructed it never knew what the question was. When asked to produce the Ultimate Question, Deep Thought says that it cannot; however, it can help to design an even more powerful computer that can. This new computer will incorporate living beings into the "computational matrix" and will run for ten million years. The computer is revealed as being the planet Earth, with its pan-dimensional creators assuming the form of white lab mice to observe its running.
I've always fancied a house sign incorporating white mice and have at last achieved it. I'll have to replace the violets with petunias when they go over.
Spent most of the day in the garden reducing the quantity of ivy and, in my rest periods, buying new underwear and a lightweight stick hoover in the hope my stairs will get vacuumed a bit more often.