Monthly Archives: December 2009
‘a vacation from our permanent vacation…’
Since we’re not traveling right now, I probably won’t be posting every day, just for special things.
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Yesterday, today, and for the next few days, we’re taking a ‘vacation from our permanent vacation’, as our friend Nick Russell put it.
We’re in the Texas Hill Country, staying at a friend of our son’s lake house on Inks Lake, near Lake Buchanan, northwest of Austin. We’ll be here until Sunday and then drive down toward San Marcos to visit a friend of ours for a few days.
With Jan and I is our daughter Brandi, our son Chris, his wife Linda, our granddaughter Piper, and her boyfriend Porter. This trip is kind of a Christmas tradition with us, as we always try to come up sometime close to Christmas.
This morning we drove into Burnet, about 10 miles away to eat lunch at Tea-licious, a really nice tearoom with very good food. After that we hit the HEB and Walgreen’s for some stuff and then home.
Tonight we’ll probably eat at Diego’s, a local Mexican place we like, and then head down to Marble Falls to look at Christmas lights.
More later…
The Christmas Sweater…
Back blogging by popular demand! Well, one demand, anyway.
Today I worked on getting two new computers set up for one of my clients. Then tomorrow I’ve got appointments with two more to look at their problems too. And I’ve got some others to contact also.
It’s going to be a busy time, just like last year.
Tonight Jan and I joined three friends to see Glenn Beck’s “The Christmas Sweater” at a local theater. But it was not a movie. It was a live video feed, done the same way they show sporting events there.
I dare anyone to see this production and not tear up repeatedly.
It’s the story of Glenn’s early childhood and is based on his bestselling book by the same name.
Glenn’s father died of cancer when he was 10 and his mother struggled to keep the family afloat. I don’t want to give away any more of the story, because there’s kind of a double twist at the end.
It was shown at over 400 theaters around the country, and there will be an encore presentation next Thursday, December 10th. You can go here to get more information.
Note that this story has nothing to do with Glenn Beck’s political views. Politics is never even mentioned. It’s just a 12 year old’s story of love and redemption.
This is well-worth seeing if you have a chance. You won’t be disappointed.
More later…
