Merry Christmas!

It's all bluster here, incredibly windy, a dusting of snow, our trees still sporting some withered brown leaves that never dropped. The warm spell we had fooled them.

Today will be a pleasant day of visiting family. This year, it's a relief to have our niece Sarah in town, staying with her grandparents for a few days. She's a saint to do this, leaving her home and friends for the holidays to make her grandparents' holiday more cheerful. And safer.

Last night, Mike and I took our customary walk around the neighborhood, light gazing, and found far less illumination than last year. For one thing, our neighbor two doors down, whose property used to be ablaze with lights and novelties, now has solar panels on the roof and has gone cold-turkey minimalist. In general, it was quiet out there, too. We came back and watched part of It's a Wonderful Life, and snacked around for a late dinner.

Oh, and before that, I had incredible luck in Scrabble and beat Mike. Really, I got all the s's and a blank, and got to play SLEAZES as a bingo, rather late in the game. That's always annoying, I know. Mike was able to console himself in the fact that it was definitely my turn to win a game. We played every day on the cruise, and he won every game--most were close, good games, and I was happy with that.
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Saturday's movie was The Founder, a movie about Ray Kroc, the man who founded the McDonald's franchise. Michael Keaton is always good, and he pretty much carried the movie. The McDonald brothers were also well played by Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch (who was cast as Drew Carey's brother on The Drew Carey Show).  The movie successfully depicts Kroc as a complex individual, and I felt nothing but sympathy for Dick and Mac McDonald, who had world views and values that clashed with Ray Kroc's. They were quiet geniuses.

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I've recently started enjoying a blog that should have been front and center in my life for a long time, but--well, without further ado, it's Book Riot. There are lots of good articles there!

And now, I should get off the computer and get some exercise before eating today.

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