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:: Friday, November 28, 2003 ::

The day after
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving Holiday is the day after. Dy and I are planning a lazy day at home.

Yesterday, we dined with the in-laws and one of Dy's niece, her husband and their two daughters at a local restaurant. This is the second year we've done Thanksgiving at this restaurant. It's nice to get up and walk away from the table without worrying about cleanup -- even nicer not to have to prepare a slew of food the night before. Then her parents zoomed off to Branson for the weekend, and her niece and family went to visit other relatives. We went home to be lazy.

Yesterday afternoon, Dy and I napped on the sofa while the Lions-Packers game on television droned on in the background. Then we watched Dogma on Comedy Central, then more football, then the traditional post-Thanksgiving dinner of ham and beans, and then watched Al Franken on C-SPAN. Franken had spoken a week or so ago at the University of Missouri-Columbia campus, and I was glad to see that it had been recorded for C-SPAN.

Today's activities: more channel-surfing, and perhaps some writing. I'm working on an essay about Joe Strummer, which I hope to complete in a week or so -- in time for the one-year anniversary of his death. I'm also continuing work on the book. It's nice to have focused time to write. Nicer still to procrastinate. :)

:: Andrew 10:11 + ::
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