Lazy Days

"Lazy"'s the word, all right. Christmas Eve, Dad, D and I went over to E's for our annual feast and gift exchange. I gave D his gift before we went over; the rest of the gifts were opened there. For D: a DVD with 53 years of MAD Magazine in .pdf format. (I found out this existed via a mention on the American Dialect Society mailing list....) Dad's a little hard to buy for, at his age; I got him a Roger Miller album. (Music, food, and clothes are about the only things he has much use for any more.) For E, a copy of McKinley's Sunshine. (E's the one who introduced me to "Buffy" in the first place, so she should enjoy the book.) Good food, good conversation, only one political argument....

Other than that, it's mostly been hanging around the house. D bought a few DVDs at Barnes & Noble, and we've watched "Despicable Me" and "Toy Story 2". (TS3 is waiting its turn.) I've been working through a reread of Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun. (I was going to finally read volume 3 of The Book of the Short Sun; I started reading it, decided to backtrack to the beginning of TBotSS, began reading that, and decided I really needed the full story from TBotLS.... There's a reason why, though I think Wolfe is a great writer, I don't read him very often.)

Still poking at the fringes of the same mathematical problem I was working on during the flight out. Some interesting results, I think, but I really need my software to make sure.

Lazy days.