Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the...
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy tragedy and intrigue.