Christmas

I would like to wish everyone a little bit of a belated Merry Christmas.  Hopefully Santa was good to you all and you got to spend time with friends and family.

I took the two days we got off to drive up and see a good friend and her husband.  It was farther North which means the temperature was even lower than it is here.  Already unprepared for cold weather here, I am distinctly unprepared for weather that is lower than it is here.  Because I’ve been in hotels for the past few months, I haven’t really had the opportunity to understand the concept of paying money for heating a house.  When I realized why the house was so cold, I asked for every blanket they owned and layered those on top of me.  I got to a total of nine before I began to be bearably warm and I now know I would not be able to survive in a colder climate.

I got to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie and I have to say it was really good!  The characters were cast very well for the 4 Holmes novels and 56 short stories that make up the Holmesian canon; Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr did an amazing job.  One of my friends went and saw Avatar again back home and asked if I would do the same given the chance.  Avatar was one of those once-only movies.  Holmes is one of those movies I would gladly go see again given the opportunity.  It was that kind of movie.

The air is really dry here which has led to two things.  1) I have GOT to invest in some Chap Stick; my lips are really dry and cracked and bleeding.  2) The road to work is quite literally strewn with tumbleweed.  They are doing construction on the road to the office and they detour us via a dirt road that is basically through the mountains.  This road must be conducive to efficient tumbleweed production because there is ALWAYS tumbleweed all over the road.  I drive over them for laughs and giggles, but I feel bad for the little coupes that drive the road and have to diligently avoid them.  Suckers; buy a more practical car.

I’ve been editing a document for work.  Every time I send the document back for review of my changes, I’ve managed to cut out five to ten pages.  Every time I get the document back, it has grown in length about twelve pages.  It started at 62, I got it down to 56.  I got it back with 78 and promptly cut it down to 70.  The most recent revision I got back is 80 pages long.  I don’t like this trend.