Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to chatworthy and tagryn!!!! Have a great one!!

Public Service Announcement: changed itinerary

I am not getting on a plane for North Carolina right now. Mom called just as I was getting up, to say that the storm on the East coast was making flights into RDU dicey for today. I looked and found that Southwest was allowing no-cost flight changes, so I booked a flight for tomorrow at 1pm. It'll be getting in pretty late (10:15), but I'm a lot less likely to get stuck in Chicago. Especially since it goes through Denver. (Of course, if it snows there tomorrow I'm hosed, but that doesn't look likely.)

Done yesterday (20101225 Sa)

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A quiet Newton's Birthday at home. I spent the morning making Ukrainian-style borscht, which came out very tasty. Probably the best batch ever, probably because I left out the potatoes, used nearly 5 pounds of fresh beets, and tossed the cabbage, turnip, rutabaga, and half the carrots in at the very end so they stayed crunchy.

Not many visitors; a combination of bad weather and other things to do, I suppose. Hopefully we'll get more next week. Good talk with Moira, though, and we only had a gallon of borscht left to go in the fridge.

Finished packing, and threw together a CD of scratch and sample tracks for Amethyst Rose because I wanted Mom to hear it, even though it's way too rough for public consumption. (Mom's mostly deaf, and very prejudiced.)

Quite a few links, many of them somewhat twisted holiday-themed stuff.