Polite Dissent

I hope everyone had a nice weekend and a pleasant holiday. The Polite-Family officially celebrated Christmas (and all associated or non-associated, non-denominational and pagan holidays) today because we were waiting for my wife to return from visiting her family. As luck would have it, her plane had to make an abrupt change-of-landing due to fog, and she ended up spending most of Christmas evening stranded in the Springfield, Missouri, airport. I finally picked her up at the local airport at 3:30 AM, and she was asleep before we left the airport parking lot.

Today, we had my parents over as well as my sister for our annual bout of eating, gift giving, eating, card games, and eating. As always, there were some truly bizarre gifts (Marvel really needs to pay more attention to where it is licensing its characters) and some spectacular food. It all finished with several hands of the mystery/card game Sleuth which is still going on downstairs as I type this up.

Much of the comic relief is provided by the pets. My sister brings her dog Suman over, and let’s just say that our cats aren’t particularly fond of him…

Regular blogging resumes tomorrow.