Wow.

I'm sorry I missed it.

wtf

You humans are nuts.

Nick and I were at Marley Station this evening. It's not the mall it once was, but sometimes we stroll through for some vampiric sense of nostalgia. We enjoy the rush of emotion around the holiday season, and nowhere can we experience such diversity of feeling as in a mall in December.

We were strolling through JC Penney to get to the parking lot.

There was a family taking a picture.

A Christmas picture.

They moved some store signs away from the Christmas trees.

And posed.

And a blonde woman took several pictures.

Now, I am never one to criticize humans for taking an opportunity, but for some reason this struck me as ironic. A false holiday scene with false happiness. I could clearly feel the irritation, the boredom, the embarrassment, of the individuals.

Fascinating. I'll never understand it.

But fascinating.

Hijacked

Jesus, Chris, I never realized I had a sister.

Blah, blah, blah.

First snow

I love standing in the middle of a forest when snow falls, listening as it alights on trees, and dead leaves. It's almost as if you can hear the air turning crystalline. Maybe humans can't hear this; I wouldn't know.

It's harder now to find the silence. Sandwiched between Baltimore and Washington as we are, the traffic and industrial plants have made it nearly impossible. I miss the times when we could travel a mile and be completely isolated. Now I feel there is no distance I could go to find solitude.

Last night I settled for sitting in the woods behind the house, letting the snow collect in my hands, watching it melt. The snowfall was brief, but as the first snow of the season, still something to be cher

Gabriel, I see you reading over my shoul

Computers suck

We weren't born in this century. We weren't even born in the last one. While we've adapted to novelties like moveable type, we have a hard time with technology. I can't fix a computer. It's a miracle that I can fix the car, really. Our hard drive crashed just after halloween, and we've been without a computer since then. Since a computer is a new thing for us -- relatively -- we weren't motivated to fix it.

So we just bought a new one. Michael Dell, here's sixteen hundred dollars.

We're back.