Cookie has gone video-game crazy, talking incessantly about whatever is the latest screen challenge Sonic is trying to clear. Maybe if he and Mojo are real good this year Santa will bring them a gaming console that isn't 15-years old (in fact, I hear Santa is already working on that).

We got the school calendar. Looks like the energy-conservation, winter-break whatever-they-call-it week off is the last full week in February. So we're going to look at airfares because we gotta get our sorry selves down to Spumoni South.

Don't want to book tickets too early, though. You never know which airline will be bankrupt by then. I'd drive... but then I'd need that spine surgery for sure.