Great Christmas!

Despite of (or because of, perhaps) other matters, I had a great time at my aunt's today (above).

My daughter Amber gave me a great gift: Universal Monsters: Legacy of Horror. It contains lots of great, and rare, photographs from the classics.

The icing on the cake today was that the 65-mile drive (both ways) from the San Fernando Valley to Mission Viejo in Orange County was relatively traffic-free! It was like driving the freeways back in the 1970s or 1980s. I think I averaged 70 mph in both directions.

UPDATE (3/31/10): After getting off the phone with a couple of G-FEST committee members this morning, I was perusing the blog posts from this period. Little did I know on Christmas Day last year that it would be the last with my mom. She passed away on January 15.