Big breakfast at my uncle's this morning. Guests included an old chief-of-police friend from Louisiana who couldn't have been more Cajun if he tried. Meal included country ham, country sausage, and pork tenderloins together with the eggs, grits, creamed corn, cooked apples and biscuits. I don't think my mother-in-law was quite ready for the sheer volume of food. Then again, I don't think I was quite ready for the sheer volume of food.

Sorry for the long outage. It's difficult finding a way to slip away and blog when you're in a house with six other people over the holidays. A new story will catch you up on what I've been doing. Highlights include: the stupidity of flying the Saturday before Christmas; dinner for ten with chucker, 100-meter freestyle sightreading, and "I'm a rocker"... with an iPod.