Quick update on la Noche Buena

It's Christmas eve. My lady and I are safely in our little townhouse with sister-in-law, our dog, her dog, and three cats* down here in the steaming urban swamp I call the unnamed port city to our south. We have just finished our Christmas shopping - most of it done today in one long rush. Traffic, lines, and people seem much thicker, longer and more numerous. Yesterday at the local Borders (yes, the port city finally got some decent bookstores) we noticed the parking lot was full, the line to check out was backed up all the way across the store and every cash register was going full tilt boogie.

Hopefully this means everyone has taken el Prez' wartime advice and has gone out to shop! Support the war effort.


*There are actually three more cats, but they have been boarded for the sake of Christmas sanity.