As is typical, the last couple of days in California have been half-dreamlike, half-frenetic. Saturday was largely taken up with preparing for the Ks’ Christmas party (which was good fun, particularly when DDtB commenter Avocet showed up), and Sunday was largely taken up with (a) recovery from the party, (b) herding kids, (c) frantically writing Christmas cards, and (d) slugging away at my Disney World posts.<\/p>\n
Which is one reason why more was being posted here before my return to the land of connectedness than after. And I’m working at Corporate today and tomorrow, so time to dedicate to wrapping up those posts is limited …<\/p>\n
… but not zero, so they may very well show up some time this morning. <\/p>\n
After which, of course, I have to do something about the pictures <\/em>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As is typical, the last couple of days in California have been half-dreamlike, half-frenetic. 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