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

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

Just think; that could be you someday.

Lee.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Nah, I can't speak Dutch. The real Santa Claus speaks Dutch.

[halfelf.livejournal.com]

He also looks somewhat like you. So he's like a Pyat-Santa. Interesting. :)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Well, he takes after me, you know.

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

Dude. Your dad is totally the real santa claus :D

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Nonsense! The real Santa can speak Dutch and... my dad... can...

Hmm.

[doctordark.livejournal.com]

Just say "Ho".

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

I love the train one. It's very 1940s, and in a non Soviet way. If you grew up with trains like I did you'd get it. Polar Express, and all that.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

*nods* I mention the Polar Express in the first of the two train pics. The angle of the second one just reminds me strongly of a poster of Lenin saluting the workers.

[catarzyna.livejournal.com]

Those are absolutely wonderful pictures. Your daughters are totally precious, but I'm sure you know that already. ;-)

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?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And yes, they definitely are.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's some truly wonderful photography! Just goes to show what a creative eye can do, given almost any setting; the one with him peeking in through the window's utterly adorable.

And I suppose this is the cue for this rathergood.com Flash (http://rathergood.com/christmas). ^_^

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!

[relee.livejournal.com]

O_O

THAT IS AWESOME.

... Is that a real beard?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Of course!

[relee.livejournal.com]

MORE AWESOMER.

That house is great too, very rustic. But I can't help thinking that if you used a pressure washer and gave it a coat of brightly coloured paints, it would look a lot better. Or more cartoony. Which is a lot better.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Comrade Lenin lives on the MOON!

Re: Dutch-Speaking Dad

[lovmelovmycats.livejournal.com]

I'm scared of cows and horses.

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

I see that now. Those are great pics. Y'all make kinder of awesome cuteness too.

[forkly.livejournal.com]

Those are such cute photos! <3

[hillarygayle.livejournal.com]

Your daughters don't have an OPTION to believing in Santa. *giggle* Bryan would mess with our kids' heads if one of our dads was like that. He'd tell them that every year, Papa or Augie went down everyone's chimney & left gifts. And he'd be dead convincing, too, leaving me to clean up the "But my grandpa really is Santa Claus" mess.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

Great pictures!

And no-way 2nd edition; 1st edition AD&D all the way!

::B::

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

Really nice photos.

The only thing is there might be issues with Santa in Russia (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1091967/Santa-Claus-illegal-immigrant-declares-Kremlin-official-Christmas-Cold-War.html).

[pyat.livejournal.com]

They sure are!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth also believes Opa can travel in time and single handedly ended WWII.

No, I'm NOT kidding. I don't know where she gets this stuff. I think she's doing a bit of conflation with Santa and God.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Bah! Braunstein, or nothing!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Bozhe moi!

[shadow-maze.livejournal.com]

Glad you linked these here. They're great!

Lunch was good too!

[dronon.livejournal.com]

These are wonderful photos and give me the warm fuzzies!

[thebitterguy]

Never too late to learn.

It's the facial hair that would require the most work.