Happy New Year, and a few happy returns
News ·Sunday January 1, 2006 @ 21:33 EST (link)
Dubyah and Hitler are at the pearly gates on judgement day, with Jesus conducting a group admissions interview. One of them says, "I did my best to do the will of God, conducting war against your enemies, securing my homeland, and campaigning against the godless." The other says, "But he's Hitler!"
I just got back from my... I suppose cousins, aunt, and uncle-in-law; that is, Honey's Aunt Lynn and Uncle David and cousins Sarah and Will, in Pullman, WA. I got there Thursday night (I left after work and arrived around 2300), not too much snow in the mountains, made fairly good time. I had a great time and really appreciate them having me. We did a puzzle, hiked, I read some Calvin and Hobbes, wrote a program on my laptop to find Sets, played with the cats, avoided the dog, and ate like a king.
For Christmas Day, as I previously mentioned, I got invited to my cousins on my mother's side, to their house in Abbotsford, BC. It's my cousin Chris and his wife Vanessa's house; a 5-bedroom that he had build (he's a contractor), with a 2-bedroom suite for his parents attached. It's on a 10 acre land parcel at the edge of the city and is heated with geothermal energy. Real nice place, great media room with HDTV and speakers set in the walls and a poker table he built himself. It was great to see them, and my other cousins Jordan and Ashley, and Uncle Graham and Aunt Wendy, and my Grandma Martin. We all talked a lot, caught up on things; I even managed to sneak in a game of Warcraft with Jordan, although it wasn't a fair fight since he had video card troubles: his cursor disappeared.
Excellent food there too, although the turkey was a little late because of some trouble with the oven. I got the grand tour and then a tour of the property out back; they have lots of plans for the back, which right now doesn't even have grass. Chris is building a workshop, and may put up a volleyball court, put some stone around a pond back there, perhaps a pool eventually.
Honey's grandfather Hedrick is in hospital, and not doing very well; he's been put on a ventilator.
