happy Kwanzaa, et al

We're at home, in Florida :)

The holiday's been really pleasant. Lindsey's been very charming and gracious, meeting nearly my mom's entire family, who came up to visit. And Natalie and her beau were here until yesterday evening (he's a cool guy). We've been doing some running in the state park woods across the street, which I'm glad to find are pretty much the same as before.

Also! We've been playing with the new cool electronic gadgets people got as gifts: I think mom won. She got Beatles Rock Band (there's been a lot of Rock Band going on, Beatles and otherwise) and a Kindle, which she's really excited about. She finds this idea of getting books out of the luminiferous æther (often for free) pretty compelling, and was nearly equally jazzed to find out that it can browse the web too.

I'm trying to muster the motivation to do some productive reading or hackinating, but there's so much relaxing to do! (I did install ChucK...)

As I type this, Lindsey is tying a festive bow around my head. She was wearing it as a choker a few minutes ago.

Atlanta people! We'll see you in just a few days!