re: #245 Feline Fearless Leader

A little bit tired. Had a good week off and used the time to visit my brother up in western NY. Got 6” of snow Tuesday night and thus got a “White Thanksgiving”. Pretty quiet time since we were not hosting a dinner and had invites to two dinners for Thursday. We took a “wandering soul”* with us to the dinners and then to a bar to watch the late football game. Rest of the week was spent playing cards, home cooking, and helping sort through my sister-in-law’s possessions for donation or otherwise disposing of. Place was quiet since my niece did Thanksgiving with friends from school rather than traveling for the limited holiday. So it was just my brother and myself in the house.

Then six hour drive back yesterday. Cold and gray out as well, which is simply a little bit depressing.

* - The “wandering soul” was a geology grad my brother knew who was working in Ithaca and didn’t have time/ability to visit family in Long Island. So we was invited to come up and go to dinners with us since it was a much shorter drive.

Sounds sort of like my Thanksgiving. We had the big dinner on Sunday this year because our extended family has so many obligations to appear at one family gathering or another that the big gatherings of old at my grandmother’s apartment simply aren’t feasible anymore. Got to see most of my cousins and their new kids, enjoy some good food, and enjoy their company for at least a little while. The rest of the week was mostly just a study in absolute laziness, as there’s never really much to do in a small rural town. Slept late, watching TV or surfed the net, and marveled at how I’m related and yet so distant from the bunch of rednecks I call kin.