Memnison Journal

We tossed our many-years-old and majorly defective strings of Christmas tree lights, and are in the market for a new set.  A thought crossed my mind, though - are there such things as LED Christmas lights for trees and if so, where can they be found?  (Or if you have a good source for Christmas [...]

What I can mention is that the New Year’s Party was a good time, though a little frazzling.    I also spent a good deal of the day in the library with Rich Rostrom, who stayed over and was helping me with getting all of my stuff out of the closet under the stairs in the [...]

Images after the cut, all totally safe for work:

Meredith attacking her presents on Christmas Eve.  Pictures in general are here at Susan’s photo blog, and a couple of goodies are after the cut:

The complete set is here at Flickr.  A sample after the cut:

This was a very odd Christmas for me; some really high points and low points. Some old traditions unexpectedly brought back, and some things mucked.  Julbord and full holiday report after the cut:

Went out and got prescription reading glasses today; my prescription is +1.75, and they work very nicely.  Worst part was slipping and falling HARD on the slick tile floor just inside the Vision Works store; as I’ve said before, with my cruddy balance, I learned long ago to fall down the best way I can [...]

“The Reformed Druids of Long Beach celebrate the Solstice with a display of the Sacred Cactus and the Blue Birds of Happiness.”

Craft stores and online stores that sell handmade stuff are doing well as cheap gift-things with the recession.  Me, I’m worthless at handmade gifts, unless you make ‘em on a computer.
People (and primates) will believe lies and deceive each other far more than dolphins will. I say we elect dolphins.
Yes, the non-US based [...]

John and Mere were working on the tree on Friday night, with help from Kurt, me and Susan, and  got it up in record time.  A full run of the photos is here, and two of the best are below:

…so be good for goodness sake!

Our dog Dot, with a very jaundiced eye towards the universe…

I decided to order a bunch of items for Christmas from Big Chain Store, with outlets nearby, and most of it was for Meredith. In total, the sum was *um* expensive. A couple of the items, which were Nintendo DS games for Mere, the online store said - oh, we don’t have that [...]

I have been having a LOT of problems with my eyes recently in regard to reading things, and set up an appointment a while back with the eye doc that the rest of the family sees.  (I’m the only one who didn’t need glasses to function; Susan had LASIK surgery a while back, and does [...]

Now comes the rush to the holiday…to children, it seems like it takes forever until Christmas, but I got news for ya, Kids - it’s a whole lot busier for the grownups, who have to make sure that everything gets done in the process…like fixing up the house, or shopping for presents, or hoping that [...]