Redwolf's Journal (continued)

Thankfully, that's different different from being upset about it. Thanksgiving was okay, but it wasn't *Thanksgiving*. With my folks still playing campground hosts in Big Bend National Park (in southwestern Texas), I didn't get to spend the holiday with family. I knew this well in advance. I was invited to join another get-together, but passed. I might have enjoyed myself to a degree, but it still wouldn't feel *right*. Instead, I did a small bit of cleaning, relaxed, and treated myself to pecan pie. I also got a call from my dad saying they were going to stay an extra month, thereby being away for Christmas too. He's offered the loan of their car here if I want to drive down for Christmas, but... a drive that's close to 800 miles in late December during a holiday period sounds somewhere between "less-than-fun" and "dangerous." I'd also have to take some days off (not that I have a shortage of paid leave time) and figure out how to do

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Life rolls on. It's already November. Oy. Some of the days feel long, but the weeks and months are going by all too quickly. It's time to think about Christmas presents. It's time to be solidifying plans for January's trip. It's more than a bit overwhelming to stop and think about it. But, in other news, I finally got around to pulling a book from my pile of 'unread and should remedy that' novels. So it was that I came to read "Kushiel's Dart." It was not what I expected. It was longer and slower to read. The reviews I'd seen on the web led me to expect graphic sex scenes that weren't there (though subject matter may still make some people uncomfortable). There was much more politics, and a far grander scale to the adventure than I ever would have guessed. In the end, it was better than I would have guessed, and I offer thanks unto those who recommended it. I may be getting soft, but I was move to both laugh and cry (often at the