The damage is done

E-word,

Our log is petering out! Don't let our youth go to waste, E-word! While on vacation I demand that you update our Tugboat Captain's log, and while you're sweating away before your vacation, I also demand of your time! Even if you have little to say, say it! It's cold in De_B! The cat puked on my bed again! Let me know!

Hanging out with the pops was okay. Lots of awkward silences, but I think that's par for the course. He's my dad, not my pal so I think (?) that's okay. Not sure, though. With El around there were fewer pauses.

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Well, I said all that yesterday, and here I am now updating our log a day later.

It's a cold day in Maryland, too, and we're supposed to be getting some snow and freezing rain tomorrow. You know, these short winter days don't do much for me, and I imagine that if I were in De_B it would do even less, though snow covered prairies sounds pretty nice to me. Do a lot of people cross-country ski out there? I remember when I visited Jenny's parents out in Minnesota they told me lots of people do that for exercise.

El is not coming home this weekend. I have a final next Monday, so we decided that I need to focus on studying, and El has to focus on work so that I can do well on my final and she can spend the last week of December home and not worry about work. This modern life gets me down, E-word, tell you what. Why haven't we come up with teleportation yet?

What are your holiday travel plans, E-word? I assume you'll be out in my neck of the woods for part of the time. Anyway, hope all is well.

Toe