Visiting the family for the holidays.

One of my brothers got the wrong sort of present. He'd just landed a job with a new employer, and was working his last day with the juvenile corrections department here (and his stories about that rapidly hit "horrific" and don't really get better from there). He got a call from the new employer... who informed him that he'd failed their psych exam and was not going to be hired after all. So now he has no new job, and no old job. Hell of a Christmas present... and not much better as a birthday present, which he celebrated (using the term loosely) on the 24th.

He's taking it pretty well, all things considered. And financially he oughta be okay (still lives with the folks, so not much in the way of bills...)

Mom got a new television for her bedroom (now, I have purchased every television in this house). Dad got a new laptop, since he's losing his work one with his impending retirement. Jeff got his Mosin-Nagant, now just leaving us with the problem of how to get it back to his house in Berkeley. My own take was pretty modest, some books, some odds and ends, and a very nice jacket.

Got talked into trying out the new Star Wars MMO (more like, watched a guy playing it and thought "yeah, okay, I'll try this"), at least once I get back to Dallas. Won't be leaving until Tuesday, though. Mom's got a plan for a family picture tomorrow morning (9 AM, gawd...), but she's got a fairly terrible cold, so...

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