{"id":11947,"date":"2007-12-26T18:13:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T01:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/12\/26\/quiet-day-2.html"},"modified":"2007-12-26T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T01:13:44","slug":"quiet_day_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/26\/quiet_day_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Quiet day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Christmas time ...\" height=\"95\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/xmas.jpg\" width=\"90\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Christmas was the usual hectic swirl.&nbsp; My folks stayed down here at the Ks, after Christmas Eve dinner, so we got to have them here for first-thing Christmas Morning gift opening, which was nice.&nbsp; After that, they headed up for Mass, while we bummed around a bit, then eventually followed up to their house for more gift-giving (and partaking of Mother&#8217;s Recipe), followed by a jaunt off to my brother&#8217;s house for dinner and still more gift-giving, wrapped up with a jaunt to the Dellis&#8217; for dessert and still <em>more <\/em>gift-giving.<\/p>\n<p>Gifts were involved, as you can tell &#8212; and I won&#8217;t go into detail, because I will certainly leave something\/someone out, but it was a very nice time.<\/p>\n<p>Today was more of a quiet day.&nbsp; I mostly sat around reading, watching Katherine swim, and trying not to be too anti-social.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, and Friday, I swing into the office in Pasadena to catch up on Stuff and save a bit of PTO balance.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the classic 90-minute-each-way commute, so wish me luck. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas was the usual hectic swirl.&nbsp; My folks stayed down here at the Ks, after Christmas Eve dinner, so we got to have them here for first-thing Christmas Morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,21,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-job-jollies","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3307,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/26\/twas_the_day_af.html","url_meta":{"origin":11947,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Twas the day after Christmas &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Dec-02 9:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"... and Dave's at work. 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