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 [...]

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 [...]

…in a couple of weeks, at the Tre Kronor Julbord.  To say I’m looking forward to this doesn’t do it justice.