Santa Claus has been very busy this week, delivering boxes and boxes from Amazon and Newegg and Adorama and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other wonderful places via UPS and Fedex.
I told the last ones, "Thank you, Santa Claus! Merry Christmas!" and they gave me a very strange look. Maybe they were wondering if I would offer cookies? But we don't have any cookies, we're gluten free. Next year I should buy cookies for the UPS men. They looked very tired.
You could not pay me to go to a shopping mall this time of year. Shopping malls are for after Christmas, when everything goes on sale.
Techno Nick just finished assembling Ben's new PC on the dining room table and is now assembling his own. Ben is installing Windows 7, then Kaspersky and then new software. The speakers Ben picked are the wrong kind, they are for a home entertainment center, so my TV now has new speakers. Nick is cursing under his breath because his PC case may be too small, but I just ordered what he picked.
I just took Nick's flourless chocolate birthday cake out of the oven and it is cooling on a rack on the counter, while his creme anglaise is cooling in the refrigerator. For his birthday dinner we are going to a Brazilian steak house and then to the White House to see the National Christmas Tree and the National Menorah and the National Yule Log (my favorite is the yule log, they dig a huge pit and fill it with enormous logs that need a forklift to move).
Husband is out buying a rib roast for Christmas and birthday candles for Nick's cake.
I just poured myself a Dominion Millenium barleywine, aged two years in oak, and am looking out my window, and smoking an electronic cigarette. All is calm, but not bright. The sun has just set on one of the the shortest days of the year. People are turning on their Christmas lights.
Merry Christmas to all! Also Happy Solstice, Felix Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, Happy Kwaanza, Happy Hannukah, and Happy Festivus, the Festival for the Rest of Us. |
