Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

Dr. ER and I have been sittin' around the hotel room watching "A Christmas Story." And I've been randomly surfin' the Net. Not a bad way to spend the morning, it turns out, after the past few days of frenetic activity.

The pic is of our hotel room Christmas tree (plastic amaryllis)! With the last-minute giftlets we got for each other late-late last night after I realized we'd done used up Christmas before it even got here! Which we opened in bed.

She got me a couple of drink holders for the truck, on request; a box of chocolate-covered cherries, which are required for Christmas to have occurred (and which no one else had got me); a couple of sunvisor eyeglass clips; and ...

A SMALL VERSION OF THE LEG LAMP (audio), (see it and listen to funny audio here), COMPLETE IN ITS FRA-GEE-LAY CRATE, THAT PLAYS DIFFERENT AUDIO CLIPS FROM "A CHRISTMAS STORY" AND IS QUITE POSSIBLY THE FUNNIEST CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT-DECORATION EVER.

:-)

My last-minute giftlet to Dr. ER was a coffee mug that you plug into the car cigarette lighter, to keep the coffee warm, which I imagine her using on her numerous trips between Boulder and the Denver airport.

--ER