Yes, I’m still alive. Activity has been minimal on this end. Everybody’s out of town for the holidays, and I’m pretty much killing time until my family gets here. Fortunately, that’s coming up soon and it looks like Mom has put together a great trip. It’s interesting, traveling alone seems like it doesn’t count. It feels like you need another witness there with you to make it matter. Or perhaps I’m just co-dependent.

On a baseball note, I watched the White Sox-Indians game last night. The umpiring was pretty good up until it actually started to matter, and they blew an important call at home plate. Then Ozzie brought in Dotel for some reason, and left him in despite clearly not having any sort of control. I don’t really understand, but I guess if you sign them to big contracts you’re supposed to play them.