So I gots me a new MacBook Pro now, and I got to say... it's a pretty nice piece of kit. (The MacBook, once it gets back from iResQ with a new keyboard assembly, now goes to my sister, who may have better luck than I at not destroying the thing.)

I also scored Areas of My Expertise, along with Dark Night and Serenity on Blu-Ray, plus a kick-ass fuzzy logic rice cooker that I'm dying to try out. Not bad, not bad.

And I'll be taking my mom and sister to Phantom of the Opera down in the Orpheum on Wednesday. So, on the whole, this 'forced vacation' thing isn't really all that bad.

A belated merry christmas, winter solstice, and whatever else you may or may not observe, to all.