The Ghosts of Christmas past ...

Merry Christmas from the Central Time Zone. It's been here about 20 minutes so far.

I just finished watching "All Over the Guy." Yes, again. I don't know why I so love that movie. I'll probably watch it again tomorrow at Kurtis and David's house.

Just before I left the office today, I stumbled across a picture on one of my favorite websites - airliner's net - I'll show it to you in a second. The first day I found airliners.net, I was up until 3:30 in the morning surfing through the thousands upon thousands of aircraft pictures.

Yes, I'm an airline geek. No, they haven't invented a 12 step group for that yet.

Anyway, this picture is of my favorite airplane (777) owned by my favorite airline (Continental) coming in to land in Houston/IAH on a gloomy fall day. This is about as Christmas-y as it gets here in the sub-tropics, but this shot captures everything I love about this town, that airline and airplanes in general in one dramatic, gorgeous shot.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=289493

Have I ever mentioned that my sister is just amazing? I emailed her on Thursday to tell her that I wasn't coming to Florida for Christmas, and she STILL got all of my presents to me yesterday even though she left Friday morning for Tampa. How did she do it?

Anyhow, I have some ghosts to purge about Christmas with my family, but it's late and I'm going to bed. The problem with taking part of a day off is that you have a chance to take a big nap, and then when it's past bedtime, you're not tired!

I'll conjure up some verbiage, and write more when I get up.