Sunday morning we got up and wandered over to Strasburg, PA. I go there every year to see the trains. We went over to the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum and wandered and read and explored. This is a velocipede... I want one. Scooty scooty scooty.
The drive home was especially Lovely. I'd been feeling somewhat like I'd lost Christmas - working through the holidays... my parents are going to Texas so I won't be doing much in the way of family stuff for Christmas, and - well, my usual winter activities of admiring Christmas lights and people watching in malls had been kind of overwhelmed with simply trying to get to the gig on time.
The drive however - Pennsylvania had several radio stations that were exclusively playing Christmas carols. Heather and I sang along to all sorts of things, and discovered that we had different call-backs to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The quickly devolved into several obscene versions - not least of which involved a rather graphic version of "going down" in history.
The Santa Claus train at Strasburg's railroad to Paradise. Didn't ride the train this time. But we wandered and appreciated the beauty of those Lovely iron beasts.
January 2nd, 2004.
So many non-entries for soo long.
Hell, it's been Christmas. What a funny sentance that is.
Many adventures. Most of Christmas/Hannukah was spent with Heather's family, extended and otherwise (sorry Mara, you're Otherwise - though that would be kind of cool codename for you.... cause it also works as a threat... "You do what I say... Otherwise" - and then you come into the room and go all David on their ass... so maybe just David should be Otherwise... hrm... I'm going to get in trouble over this sentiment anywho). I met some fish and babies.
I forgot to drop my parents at the airport, but I did remember to pick them up, so that's ok. There was cat-catching drama, and there were nights of mirth with Firedean. I got the Extended Lord of the Rings DVD trilogy for Christmas and am looking forward to spending about fifty hours straight watching ALL of it. I've watched a