The Holidays
Feb. 1st, 2014 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowLooking at my archives, I see that I haven't said much about my trip to California. So....
I'm not going to say much more about Dad. We arranged for him to have a military funeral - three-gun volley, bugler playing "Taps", flag ceremony, the whole schmear - and his ashes are interred, with a few other items, in a wall-niche at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. That was what he wanted.
:pause for brief tears:
I did pay a visit to Barnes & Noble, as usual. I didn't buy much; even without the $25 gift certificate I got for Christmas, I spent less than $100. I bought a few bits of fiction - Hiaasen, Bradbury, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novik - plus the cookbook I mentioned a while ago and Empires of the Silk Road, a book on Central Asian history someone recommended to me. Haven't gotten around to reading any of them yet.
D and I did get out to one movie, "Frozen". I was pretty pleased with it; I particularly liked the fact that, though there was a villain, he wasn't the central problem - that was Elsa's need to come to terms with her power. (If anything, he helped catalyze the resolution.) Like almost everyone who's seen it, I was most impressed by Elsa's big "Let It Go" number. Brought tears, it did.
I can't say it was a good vacation, but it had its moments.
I'm not going to say much more about Dad. We arranged for him to have a military funeral - three-gun volley, bugler playing "Taps", flag ceremony, the whole schmear - and his ashes are interred, with a few other items, in a wall-niche at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. That was what he wanted.
:pause for brief tears:
I did pay a visit to Barnes & Noble, as usual. I didn't buy much; even without the $25 gift certificate I got for Christmas, I spent less than $100. I bought a few bits of fiction - Hiaasen, Bradbury, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novik - plus the cookbook I mentioned a while ago and Empires of the Silk Road, a book on Central Asian history someone recommended to me. Haven't gotten around to reading any of them yet.
D and I did get out to one movie, "Frozen". I was pretty pleased with it; I particularly liked the fact that, though there was a villain, he wasn't the central problem - that was Elsa's need to come to terms with her power. (If anything, he helped catalyze the resolution.) Like almost everyone who's seen it, I was most impressed by Elsa's big "Let It Go" number. Brought tears, it did.
I can't say it was a good vacation, but it had its moments.
