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Yuletide greetings of cheer.

Wow, this was the best Christmahanakwanzika ever, but I jest. It was a really good Christmas, so far as the experience of a holiday can be compressed into simple adjectives like good, swell, and neat indeedy. I stayed up really, really late with mom helping to prepare the Christmas dinner on Friday. I think I went to bed at about four thirty. It would have been early but for my lack of planning, at about three or so I was getting ready to turn in and mom asks, "weren't you going to make a cheesecake?"
"shit" was my initial thought. I grabbed the wrong recipe, not wrong so much as its execution would not result in a pumpkin cheesecake being made, but it wasn't the recipe I liked the best. So I ended up looking up the recipe on the interweb, and by the grace of God, had all of the required ingredients. The confectionary turned out fairly well and I caught some sleep. Christmas morning came around and was quite satisfying. I got a digital camera, not so much out of my dire want of a digital camera, but for my trip to Japan, so I can upload pictures and the parents can get a vague idea of what the hell I'm up to. The rest of the gifts for me were mostly books. Pretty much everyone in the extended family sends me books, which makes me happy. Part of this year's literary haul includes Shogun by James Clavell, Flyboys by James Bradley, A Sideways look at Time by Jay Griffiths, and America: The Book.

Christmas day night (I'll pause so you can read that phrase again). People came over for dinner. Specifically my great aunt and uncle (mom's side), their two kids (being my second cousins), my grandmother (from my dad's side), and Chris, who is a good friend of one of my second cousins. Chris is really cool, and by really cool I mean he still remembers all of the code he wrote for original Atari computers. He has been a geek for about as long as computer geeks have existed. He also does stuff like mountain biking and motocross. Uncle Jim brought with him all of his stuff from when several people from my mom's side of the family went to Japan to find relatives in the town where the family originated. He showed my all of the family trees he had made as research before the trip, and all of the pictures of their time in Iida. Anyways, fun times with the family.

Before I forget (as previously happened) there will be a LAN party on Thursday (I know I said Wednesday to some people) but Thursday is now for sure. Anyone is welcome to come, but please bring your own system (if you arrive early I will be able to get you copies of games). It'll probably start around noon-ish. Hope to see people there, and I will be calling around soon.

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2 Comments:

yeah i got that America book too. Jon Stewart is pretty damn funny.

By Anonymous, at 12/27/2004 03:51:00 AM

Yup, little old computers with 8-bit processors. This was one he used to own. This would have been oh, a decade before we were born.

By Brent, at 12/27/2004 08:49:00 PM

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