Twas a good Christmas

I went to my folks on Christmas Eve. Spent the night there and went to my sister's with my parents on Christmas Day. All my siblings plus their kids showed up. Dinner was good and I spent the day eating, drinking, talking and trying to avoid tripping over semi-domesticated house apes. Boxing Day we all went to breakfast at a local hotel's restaurant and then I came home.

It was fun plus not too exciting which is always a plus in my opinion.

The gifts I got were few but good.

From my folks I got the book What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order. I finished it in a day. It's an excursion into the history of the U.S.A. and how its past has made it the confusing country it seems to the rest of the world. The most fascinating, and sickening, part is how the European portion of the US performed ethnic cleansing on the people already here. I use that word in exactly the meaning you think. I also got a little money from them.

My oldest brother and his SO gave me a copy of The Hebredene Journals, a book his SO wrote.

My other brother and his family gave me a $50 gift card for one of the local grocery chains. That should keep me in food for at least a week.

Yesterday I went and bought some new equipment for one of my favorite activities. I got some containers to keep loose accouterments in, some latex gloves and a couple of D-rings for my cuffs. I also got a couple of new floggers and a paratrooper's bag to carry all my stuff around.

It was a good Christmas.