Holidays have been quite busy. Wish that I were someone like Kottke or Dooce (I even have a goofy name to match) who blogs for a living, that I could have adventures AND time to blog about them. Michigan was characteristically cold ... the first day I was there. The day, of course, I had to scuffle with the rental car and the roads and the unfamiliar byways. By the time I had the windshield washing fluid topped off, the car controls all memorized, and the roads familiarized, that's when the weather decided to take a turn towards practically tropical, hitting highs in the 60's by the time I left. Which is just as well, as I put some serious milage on the car this time around, about 500 miles in 4 days. Three trips to Lansing from the Detroit area will do that, especially when you do it back to back three days in a row. what was nice is that, as always, they had run out of the car class I had reserved, so I got a 2 class upgrade (the next class up was also all rented out). I could have had a choice of SUV if I so desired, but now that gas is no longer the glorious $1/gallon of 2000 (that's about $.25 a liter for those of you sobbing European/Asians reading this), I really couldn't afford that extravegance. As it was, I was running seriously undermilage, as I had to drive 75 mph everywhere I went. Even with aggressive drafting of SUVs, I couldn't get it too much higher then 30mpg. Turkey Day itself was good, as was seeing the family. All we really did as just sit around and talk, or sit around and watch TV; but sometimes the best bonding isn't that which is all that exciting. Plus, broham had to work two days I was there, so there wasn't that much time to do stuff anyway. We did get all camera geeky for a little bit, but after looking over the pictures, I'd have to say it was a very disappointing trip, photographically speaking. Lots of watching of Avatar, lots of food, and lots of time hanging with the Captain. Very much a good break. Except for the part where I came home and had mounds of work to finish.