Hey, long time, no post.

I've been in lurk mode, I guess. Last time I posted a substantive update was Thanksgiving! So, I guess, let me give you a few a few highlights, and if you want to know more, just let me know and I will elaborate.

Christmas was good. We had yolen's family over for Christmas eve day, and went to my folks on Christmas day. Added more books, music, and DVDs to my collection.

New Year's eve we stop by yolen's parents and then took a taxi to Hoboken and J.S.'s annual party.

January 14th-19th we took a cruise (Royal Caribbean this time) out of Ft. Lauderdale, stopping at Cozumel, Mexico and Belize City, Belize. The ship (Navigator of the Seas) was huge, with the elevators running 14 floors, and even had an ice-skating rink. We had fun, though we liked our first cruise better, in part due to scheduling. That cruise went day-in-port, day-at-sea, day-in port, day-at sea, where as this one went sea, port, port, sea, plus the ship got into ports early and left early. The back-to-back days of waking up very early to get off the ship were rough on us night people, and having to leave port before evening was annoying. We went to the beach in Cozumel and did a tour around Belize City and then out to some Mayan ruins (Altun Ha).

The flight back was a bit nerve wracking, as we got to the airport around 9am, for a 5pm flight, and asked about getting an earlier flight. Due to a pushy employee, we wound up on standby for a 11:50 flight instead of confirmed on the 12:50. Fortunately, we made it onto the standby flight and didn't have to deal with our luggage sitting around Newark without us.

In geek news, I ascended another nethack character, this time an Elvin priestess.