'tis the season

...of too much. Where do they store these mothers during the year?
I'm about to write The Second Annual Christmas Rant for our Tiapos
party next week and I think I would like to include these overwhelming
guys. Our best holidays were way back when we would escape to
Europe and wander around in the glorious cold admiring the fact
that they didn't overdo the red and green and sparkle and on and on...

desserts that dazzle

I met Gini for lunch at Noeteca yesterday and it was all lovely indeed.
Good walking weather here in SF, and then, later in the day, Original Ken
was returned to us and he looks and acts like a brand new car. Today I
hit the LOH and yes, I can do it.

ooooooooops

That first faulty blogger alert was emailed to some of my faithful readers
before I was ready for anything, really. I was just fooling around with
a poem (not mine) about baseball and I couldn't get the spacing right.

Did you know that I'm going to Spring Training again? In March with
Ginger. I'm sick of football, not that I watch it, but it's hard to avoid.

Today I'm going to 24 LITE to get back onto the bike and to pump
just a little iron, as they say. It's so easy not to go and with all the Ken
(car) problems, the trip to Santa Barbara and working a bit too much.
Oh yes, then we have holiday stuff and lists, you know the drill.

I'm having lunch with Gini later and then home to hit the Grisham
novel and address a few xmas cards. So that's it, you get two alerts today!

belated b.day in the sun

So nice being with Doug and Barb again yesterday out at the Mission
Rock Resort. Too cold to sit outside, alas, but at least we could look
out on the Bay. We all love this birthday tradition, even though it
was about two months late for Doug's actual DOB.

take me to Mississippi

There is no better author for palette-cleansing than John Grisham
and he is just what I needed after finishing The Goldfinch and loving
it so much. Sycamore Row is on my LindaKindle2 and I'm caught
up in this legal drama about a wealthy white man who leaves
everything to his black housekeeper after he hangs himself. See
what I mean? A perfect holiday treat!

other views of this world

Last night we were both impressed with The Reluctant Fundamentalist
from the Flix®. It tells the story of a Pakistani professor who is torn by
his love for America and his experiences in his homeland where the CIA
has some (ahem) influence.  Enthralling...

(My Lyft experience yesterday was positive and I got a ride home from
Sabrina, so it all worked out and Ken goes in for open heart surgery tomorrow.)

joining the Lyft community

Poor Ken looks GREAT on the outside, but he is having some engine
problems with two red lights going on and off on his dashboard. He is
going in hospital for surgery on Monday and we will rent a car, but in the
meantime I just joined Lyft and will ride to/fro the Legion today and this
will be an experience. I have huge admiration for the young 'uns who
came up with this community concept of ride sharing and I'm looking
forward to not driving today. Coming home in the dark and rain last
night was harrowing and I thank dear Tanya for keeping me sane!