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enthusiastickOK... this is my second attempt at making this post, LJ blatantly ate it the first time.
Thank the gods I am back online. I had an enforced three-day absence, you see, since while my grandparents were in town visiting they resided in my room where my computer lives. I started yesterday playing catch up on e-mail and webcomix and livejournal and everything else, and am only today getting anywhere close to done. For those of you who may be wondering why I am home in the middle of the day instead of on the road somewhere: they hired my replacement, and he started yesterday. Sorry![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
syganzychick. The new guy's name is Clifton, and I will continue to have a job through January while he is trained. Although if this week is any indication I will be working significantly fewer hours. I was let off today at 1:45. So unless Clifton doesn't work out for some reason I am unemployed again in a little over a month.
Happy belated Hanukkah, Solstice, Yule and Christmas to everyone out there in LJ-land. My Yule was uneventful, celebrated quietly and privately. My Christmas was spectacular, I made out like a bandit. My parents had already given me the large-ish gift of snow tires for my new car, so there were no surprises waiting for me under the tree. For those of you playing the home game, my father is sort of the master of Christmas surprises and delights in giving them expensive presents they never saw coming. But ultimately it was my sisters who came through in a pinch and furnished me with a frankly frightening number of items off my Christmas list (mostly books and CDs.) These included, it should be noted, a pair of hardbound Exalted supplements courtesy of my sister Sarah, the first roleplaying books to be given to me by a family member in at least six years of asking. Also the Scrubs soundtrack, glee! In the extended-family Secret Santa ritual my cousin Glen gave me a purple NU beach chair complete with cupholder armrest.
Christmas was also excellent because my family came together once again, at least the nuclear family and my Mom's relatives. I know I am blessed with a rare gift that my relatives get along as well as we do. I hear rumors that next year my eldest sister Kate will be spending her second Christmas as a married woman with my brother-in-law's family, and I'm not entirely sure how I'll be able to cope with that. My family rocks.
On an entirely unrelated note, I am a bad person. The most recent example of this truth came when I heard the announcement that Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell has breast cancer, something she apparently discovered on Christmas Eve. For those of you not following Connecticut politics (and I imagine that's quite a number of you) Ms. Rell is already suffering under the shadow of her predecessor, John Rowland, for whom she acted as lieutenant Governor. He resigned earlier this year under indictments of massive corruption and violation of ethics guidelines, and just recently plead guilty to the lesser charge of tax evasion. Anyway, my very first thought upon hearing the deeply regrettable news about the very capable Governor Rell's health was: "Man, if she survives that, her electability goes through the roof."
Thank the gods I am back online. I had an enforced three-day absence, you see, since while my grandparents were in town visiting they resided in my room where my computer lives. I started yesterday playing catch up on e-mail and webcomix and livejournal and everything else, and am only today getting anywhere close to done. For those of you who may be wondering why I am home in the middle of the day instead of on the road somewhere: they hired my replacement, and he started yesterday. Sorry
syganzychick. The new guy's name is Clifton, and I will continue to have a job through January while he is trained. Although if this week is any indication I will be working significantly fewer hours. I was let off today at 1:45. So unless Clifton doesn't work out for some reason I am unemployed again in a little over a month.Happy belated Hanukkah, Solstice, Yule and Christmas to everyone out there in LJ-land. My Yule was uneventful, celebrated quietly and privately. My Christmas was spectacular, I made out like a bandit. My parents had already given me the large-ish gift of snow tires for my new car, so there were no surprises waiting for me under the tree. For those of you playing the home game, my father is sort of the master of Christmas surprises and delights in giving them expensive presents they never saw coming. But ultimately it was my sisters who came through in a pinch and furnished me with a frankly frightening number of items off my Christmas list (mostly books and CDs.) These included, it should be noted, a pair of hardbound Exalted supplements courtesy of my sister Sarah, the first roleplaying books to be given to me by a family member in at least six years of asking. Also the Scrubs soundtrack, glee! In the extended-family Secret Santa ritual my cousin Glen gave me a purple NU beach chair complete with cupholder armrest.
Christmas was also excellent because my family came together once again, at least the nuclear family and my Mom's relatives. I know I am blessed with a rare gift that my relatives get along as well as we do. I hear rumors that next year my eldest sister Kate will be spending her second Christmas as a married woman with my brother-in-law's family, and I'm not entirely sure how I'll be able to cope with that. My family rocks.
On an entirely unrelated note, I am a bad person. The most recent example of this truth came when I heard the announcement that Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell has breast cancer, something she apparently discovered on Christmas Eve. For those of you not following Connecticut politics (and I imagine that's quite a number of you) Ms. Rell is already suffering under the shadow of her predecessor, John Rowland, for whom she acted as lieutenant Governor. He resigned earlier this year under indictments of massive corruption and violation of ethics guidelines, and just recently plead guilty to the lesser charge of tax evasion. Anyway, my very first thought upon hearing the deeply regrettable news about the very capable Governor Rell's health was: "Man, if she survives that, her electability goes through the roof."
