December 23, 2005
Yosemite weekend (OK, let's say "middle of the week")
1) Cross-country skiing at Badger Pass. [not much snow, but enough to stand up the kids on skis and go. We were lucky it didn't rain on us.]
2) CSTV—College Sports TV—added to the DirecTV subscription at the Yosemite house for $12/mo. We were able to watch the Stanford men's team play Princeton in the Pete Newell Challenge. Nice channel, no nonsense; they even had an interesting and informative one hour show on Stanford athletics prior to the Princeton game. Not a good enough channel to persuade me to get a TV, however. Informed that "Iron Chef" was playing on another channel, Cole successfully lobbied for change of channel away from CSTV: "C'mon, it's even the Japanese one, in translation!" he said. A basketball game is just a basketball game—there's only one kitchen stadium.
3) Passed on the Ali G DVD to Wade, along with the 2nd season Curb Your Enthusiasm DVDs I (proudly) own.
4) Arrival of interesting Christmas letters from many quarters again makes me wish I had gotten off my ass to write one myself. Not that getting off my ass is really essential to writing a Christmas letter, I suppose.
5) Avoided the temptation to slink off to the Chukchansi casino and relieve whatever Texas Hold'Em players might be present of their $$$. "We don't need to gamble," Gloria says. Maybe I wouldn't win in a real life game, but I don't think I'd be easy to beat, either. I'll just play like the Poker Academy Pro robots. They're baffling and inscrutable.
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