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[randy_byers]

I'm back from Central Oregon, where I spent Xmas weekend with the whole family except for my sister, who is still in Chile. It was a very mellow weekend. There was snow on the ground, but the roads were clear. The food was good, and Christmas itself wasn't very stressful. I even helped with the cooking a little, which was fun. Well, you know how these things always are. Lots of conversation about life, the universe, and getting older. My younger nephew gave me a ceramic sculpture of Spiderman's hand, in web-throwing pose, which he had made in a ceramics class at his high school. I've put it upstairs in the awards, shrines, and dolls display.

I returned to a very cool Christmas card from gerisullivan and a copy of Chaplin at Keystone that I had ordered a few weeks ago. Chaplin at Keystone is a collection of almost all the shorts Charles Chaplin made at Keystone in 1914 -- the first films he made in the U.S., before -- or as -- he created the Little Tramp character, and before he was a genius. Should be good for a laugh in the new year.

In a few days, ron_drummond will come here for a stay as part of the trip out for his father's memorial. Marriages, pregnancies, deaths all around. It's the beginning of a new age.

Well, ho ho ho, you know? I look forward to seeing Ron, and I look forward to the new year. The adventure, such as it is, continues.

Comments

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Enjoy the Chaplin collection, very wonderful.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I'm really looking forward to it!