Thanksgiving Is Completed

Wahoo, Thanksgiving! Mine was a success. I ate a lot, saw the family, helped to deep fry a turkey, attended an NHL game, saw No Country for Old Men, and spent a great deal of time on I 35. It was five straight days of success.

Oh, and speaking of No Country for Old Men, a few nights before I went to see the movie, I actually played trivia in a bar against one of the stars of the film, Mr. Barry Corbin. That dude is one stone cold mother when it comes to trivia. If he could bring the same level of intensity to the movie set that he did to his little trivia box, then after a few years, we'd stop referring to Academy Awards as Oscars and start calling them Corbies. I'm telling you, the man is an information-retrieval machine. (He is also quite good in No Country for Old Men.)

Now that Thanksgiving is past, it's time to get serious about Christmas. Since I don't have much money this year, it means I need to begin scouring the wooded areas and trash cans of Austin for gift ideas. Yes, I may be giving you a dead raccoon for Christmas, but it's coming straight from the heart.