Maybe 20 years ago, my stepmother started putting together a Christmas village. She never cared anything about it all being the same brand, so the scale wasn’t at all consistent from building to building, which was and is an irritant for someone as anal-retentive as I about such things. A villager who’s in scale at … Read more
Well, it seems I’m sending 2008 out much the same way I sent 2007 out. In fact, I think pretty much everything on December 31, 2008 that I thought on December 31, 2007. Here’s that post. Heh. I’m taking in the Peach Bowl in glorious HD, and enjoying a pleasantly subtle Harpoon IPA haze. I … Read more
Well, I guess today contained our last scheduled Christmas break activities. It was fun having lunch with Uncle Bill today. He’s doing well. I’ll tell you, though, I wish that whole “urban renewal” concept would hit Birmingham. In Hoover (where Bill lives) and a few other suburbs, there are earth-movers and cranes everywhere, even now—while … Read more