Well, good evening. It’s been a long day, but I just thought I’d wish all my few regular readers a Merry Christmas.

I’ve been up since seven or so, when Kim poked her head into “our” room here at the Wise residence (Terri’s old room) to let us know that it was Christmas. I’m all for waking up early on Christmas, but by the luck of the ol’ REM cycles, I was in a state where I was not quite awake yet not quite able to go back to sleep. So I spent most of the gift-opening ritual in kind of a funk, but I made out like a Yuletide bandit, and got to spend lots of quality time cuddling with new niece #1, Kim and Glenn’s baby, Hope. Almost all of my presents for Terri this year were off the official list, so I was happy to see that they all seemed to go over well (the big ones included a Crumpler photography bag, and a Holga “toy” medium format camera). My take for the day included lots of cool gadgets for the new powerbook (remote control, iskin, and keyboard), lots of new reading listening and viewing material, a network adapter gizmo for the new tivo, lots of coffee gear (including a Kingdom of Loathing coffee pixie mug which I asked for in honor of my familiar, Yrgacheffe), tickets to three upcoming A.R.T. shows (cool!), and much much more!

This was also Terri’s mom’s year to host Christmas Day festivities for her side of the family, so all her aunts and uncles and cousins came over for dinner and further gift exchange, and it was great to catch up with everybody. The “meaty” empanaditas I made from a recipe in one of Terri’s Vegetarian Times magazines were a hit, sneaking some Boca ground on some [fellow] carnivores. I got to spend some time talking shop with Uncle Larry who used to run a printing business; he did mostly offset and not letterpress, but he apparently did have a linotype, which is a really cool beast of a machine which had sort of a typewriter keyboard, but instead of typing letters onto paper, it actually cast type from molten lead, to be fed into a letterpress.

Pictures soon!

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