One of the downsides of living fairly close to the family is that I end up spending a lot of vacation time down here. Technically vacation, but it's not like I didn't spend a good amount of my life in the family home already (and dossing down on the couch isn't that great either).

The upside, though, is that Christmas is pretty rewarding. The loot pile is substantial... books by Banks and Butcher, Alpha Protocol for the PS3, a couple volumes of Lucky Star and one of Bamboo Blade, a nice shirt and pair of jeans... and Dad bought me a Browning Buck Mark .22, and hand-carved and stained a set of grips for me. (Along with a cleaning kit, a box of ammo, and ear protection...) I'd been admiring his for a while but hadn't dropped the cash on one myself, and now I don't have to. I do have to worry about finding a good range around Richardson...

Even one of the gifts I've given, I also get some benefit from. Dad went to Texas Tech when he was younger (got drafted before he graduated, and spent his entire tour in Germany after a completely-improbable series of follies that deserves a post of its own), and he's still a big fan of their football program. This year they got into a bowl game, which turned out to be in Dallas on the 1st; I picked up a pair of tickets so that we could go. Hoping for fairly warm weather instead of snow!

Here's hoping everybody else is having a merry Christmas too.

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