Bacon and Wizards. And Santa.

[pyat]

Working from home today, which today basically means doing very little except wait for emails to come in. Usually, they appear right at the end of the day, which is not very helpful. I managed to hit Rankin's for lunch with shadow_maze, who afterward offered me a tour of his new place - very nice! We need to innaguarate the table with a game session soon. We talked about plans for the new year - maybe a 2nd ed AD&D game?

shadow_maze reminded me that I have not yet shared some photos with my Livejournal friends. It has been said that my father looks a little bit like Santa Claus. Just a bit.


I really can't see it, though. Nah. Just because a guy likes to wear a red suit? (The little moppets in the background are my daughters Claire and Elizabeth.)

Still, judge for yourself.



Very, very Christmassy.


Terminally Christmassy. Elizabeth is dreaming of sugar plums, or possibly Pirate-Fairy-Princess-Robots.


This photo tastes like eggnog and pine needles, it's so darn Christmassy!


Into the woods! The girls were wearing their cloaks and dresses from my sister's wedding.


Okay, so maybe he looks a little like Santa.


Christmas cosplay!


All aboard the Polar Express!




_{"Here, Comrade Kringle rides the Trans-Siberian Railway, delivering borscht and plastic sputniks to the Proletariat."}

I felt bad about thinking this one looked like a Soviet-era poster, until my father made jokes about Comrade Claus.

Claire describes it as "Opa is on Thomas!"

Comments

Dutch-Speaking Dad

[ankhorite.livejournal.com]

Ho!

And your moppets are the quintessence of moppethood, as your father is the same for Santahood.

Great photos.

PS: Hate trains.

Re: Dutch-Speaking Dad

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

You actually hate trains? Most people either like them, approve of them on general environmental grounds, or are ambivalent. Why hate?

Re: Dutch-Speaking Dad

[ankhorite.livejournal.com]

I approve of them vigorously from a city-planning (heck, state- and national-planning) perspective. I'm a huge fan of commuter trains in particular.

But I had a negative experience with a train a while back (no, don't ask, sorry to have provoked the question, actually, that was foolish of me) and so on a personal level, I don't want to be anywhere near them.

But in the abstract? Go, trains!

Also, the old-fashionedy ones are cute. I know this intellectually. It just can't compete with my late-breaking aversion.

Woooo, woooooooOOOO!

Re: Dutch-Speaking Dad

[lovmelovmycats.livejournal.com]

I'm scared of cows and horses.