There and Back Again
| January 1, 2008
It was a simple Christmas. I took it easy. There was little money to go around. I took some time off for the holidays, did not do much.
Besides working on the website, I have been doing a lot of reading and watching movies over the past few months. I bought one the latest translations of War and Peace. I also picked up some business books.
Fishstick went to the groomers last week. While I was in town I got a haircut, which included a 30-minute discussion of the current political races. I stopped by the library and picked up Into the Wild, a book about a guy who gave away all of his money and went to Alaska to live simply. He gets sick and dies a few months later. When Fishstick came home he was extremely thirsty. Later in the day he was throwing up. This went on for several days. I gave him saltines and Benadryl. He is better.
Been watching movies and television series, watched Deep Water, a documentary about an ill-equipped guy who sails in an around-the world solo boat race. He fakes the trip and when he realizes his lies have caught up with him, he suffers a mental breakdown and kills himself. I have been watching Northern Exposure and Battlestar Gallatica. I am off my Dark Shadows kick. I do not watch many regular television series except Chuck, Big Bang Theory, and Ugly Betty. With the writer’s strike there have been no new comedies. I have watched several football games. Over the holidays, I watched some Rankin/Bass Christmas specials and A Christmas Story.
Anna-Brooke wrote a novella, The Best Year Ever, a story about several children, riding horses, visiting friends, and such. She wrote the 20+ page single-spaced multi-chapter story over the past year. I am very proud of her writings. She has written stories since she started writing.
Toni's cousin Jeffrey is going to seminary, yes the great Southern Seminary in Louisville where I attended. He leaves later this month. He will stay on campus, which is the best idea. I wish I had stayed on campus after the second year. The conversations take me back.
The title for this blog came easily. I watched the extended versions of The Lord of the Rings before Christmas. It is good to have Pushkin back functional. I believe I have settled on a workable template. I am working off a WordPress template developed by a guy named Nate from refueled.net. I have needed the creative outlet.
Some have asked why I dropped my MySpace account. I was bored of the whole thing. MySpace has become sort of trashy. Technically the site is a mess. I hate that this was the only way I stay in touch with several people. Some of my friends switched to Facebook. Facebook has turned out to be a disappointment with its handling of personal information. SLP is it for me.
There is much to catch up on. I want to share some of the topics I came upon while on a trip to New York, The Definition of a Christian (a conversation with Miriam Shelton) and The Love Story of Phillip and Toni. I have made a second trip to New York since then. I went to Miami in October. Did I ever mention this?
Lauren drives now.... We are discussing moving to another church.... Where has the time gone?
-plf