Christmas Eve: Mostly the same as last year. Church...meal prep...dine with family...Birthday cake....open presents....photo ops.... Christmas Day: Leftovers. Play with toys. Maybe watch some sappy old Christmas movie with real buttered popcorn. More birthday cake. Usually I'll get called into work on one or both days briefly. Last year it was Christmas, and the year before that it was Christmas Eve. That's life in the phone factory... How about YOU?
Dec 10 was the children's Christmas pageant at church Dec 16 was the church choirs cantata. my daughter's Nursemas was the 16th. (Nurses almost never get the actual holiday off) Yesterday was the Community Corale's Christmas. Tomorrow is my wife's office party. The 23rd will be her family Christmas in Jackson. The 25th I will help deliver 250 meals to shut ins and those who have to work Christmas The lady who organizes this at our church handed out assignments willy nilly, so all the volunteers spent the day driving all over town. I organize the addresses into 10 neighborhoods, so everyone is done by 11 Am. Fire stations, Police station, convenience stores and those shut ins recommended by their Doctor, Nurse or Pharmacist.
Christmas Eve, temperatures are predicted to fall to 28F and Christmas Day 43/28. I'll use this cold snap to work on the limits of the cruise control enables engine ON problem. At a minimum I want to confirm preconditioning via the key fob disables the problem. I'd also like to see how low the SOC can be before it won't happen. The day after Christmas, I'll bring my wife's other dog home from the 10 day observation period with the Vet. Also, a coumadin clinic visit. I'll wait till Friday to see if the stitches can come out. Bob Wilson
Neo Grinch plans to collect data on neo car and ditch Christmas. I say no. Here where nobody thinks of Christ as transforming our humanity, I will make some cookies and use that trick to inch people towards treating others with love. No idea how to make that happen but high expectations for almond/chocolate/date cookies. Silly, right? My friends, I ask you to do more than that. We are here by some miracle. Do not parse that, just make our miracle even better. Each year, all cultures have some way to push this agenda. There will always be tragedy and pain and distrust. These are stones that hurt our feet while we walk towards better. Keep walking.
We have snow here in NW Indiana so it looks like we will have a white Christmas this year. Things have really changed since I retired, I used to work just about every holiday, sometimes 16 hour shifts making the big bucks at the steel mill. We don't exchange gifts, we have Christmas every day and have too much stuff now so a quiet Christmas Eve and lunch at the truck stop with my son tomorrow on Christmas. Where else can you eat out on Christmas except Chinese and the truck stop will be empty. We always try to set at the booth next to the fireplace.
All restaurants open, as Christmas is not a holiday here. Family dinner at home though. I will make some cookies. Glad ya got snow padroo.
Just returned from service at a friend's church. Hang out afterwards to eat cookies and talk with very nice people. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!
