1) I found my holiday icon for this year. Fits in nicely with my "retro" themed icons, I think.

2) We're leaving for LA tomorrow. Four-day trip. I'm feeling a lot better about it since I checked the weather forecast and discovered the outlook had changed from "raining the entire length of the trip" to "slight chance of rain the last hour or so". Still, we're going to stop by a tire place tomorrow and have them take a look at our worn treads. We might buy a new set before heading out. ::sigh::

Anyway, another positive is that, thanks to my parents no longer living in LA, we can limit our stay to a small locality. Our first SoCal visit that won't involve ridiculous amounts of driving! We'll still be plenty pressed for time, so apologies in advance to any of our friends and well-wishers we don't get to see. :(

3) Ah, and speaking of weather reports:



I can't stop laughing at this.

4)Also, thanks to tigerpillow for this awesome link of interest not just to baseball fans but also those interested in what life was really like back in the day of our great-grandparents.

5)I leave you, gentle reader, with this: