A family Christmas, a little late

It is a novel experience lying in bed with an unplugged laptop on my lap, typing without the worry that my battery might run out within about thirty seconds of unpluggedness. Even now I'm having a hard time fighting the urge to leap out of bed, grab the cables out of the laptop bag, and hastily plug them into the wall.

But I'm getting ahead of myself here.

Sunday evening, those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook will know, my brother Aaron picked me up in the "Chef Bus"—the short bus that he and his wife Karen bought for their ever-growing family (four kids plus a dog, and a fifth kid on the way), so named because Karen is a Pampered Chef dealer—and we trucked on down to the parents' home out in the southwest Missouri countryside for a slightly-late Christmas celebration. We watched the first two Wallace and Gromit shorts on the way down, during which time we took a bit of a wrong turn and ended up having to cut across back country roads to get back on course.

( Meadows family Christmas (observed), and a new laptop )

Now it's time to close this entry and get to bed. Tomorrow I will be going out and about, including stopping by a coffeehouse or two to try out this new laptop on their wifi.

I still can't believe it's mine. This is one of the best Christmas presents I've ever gotten.

A family Christmas, a little late

It is a novel experience lying in bed with an unplugged laptop on my lap, typing without the worry that my battery might run out within about thirty seconds of unpluggedness. Even now I'm having a hard time fighting the urge to leap out of bed, grab the cables out of the laptop bag, and hastily plug them into the wall.

But I'm getting ahead of myself here.

Sunday evening, those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook will know, my brother Aaron picked me up in the "Chef Bus"—the short bus that he and his wife Karen bought for their ever-growing family (four kids plus a dog, and a fifth kid on the way), so named because Karen is a Pampered Chef dealer—and we trucked on down to the parents' home out in the southwest Missouri countryside for a slightly-late Christmas celebration. We watched the first two Wallace and Gromit shorts on the way down, during which time we took a bit of a wrong turn and ended up having to cut across back country roads to get back on course.

( Meadows family Christmas (observed), and a new laptop )

Now it's time to close this entry and get to bed. Tomorrow I will be going out and about, including stopping by a coffeehouse or two to try out this new laptop on their wifi.

I still can't believe it's mine. This is one of the best Christmas presents I've ever gotten.