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The goose is getting fat

I've never had goose, actually …

I've had a busy few holidays. We made our annual fruitcake. I told Oz, "No more fruitcake. We're not doing that again."

He said, "Oh, you'll forget by next year."

"What, is that 'fruitcake pain', the kind of pain you forget?"

He may be right. This evening, I read an article about black cake and the wheels started turning.

We ran around town taking pictures at night.

Christmastime skyline, from the floodwall

We headed over to downtown to check out the enchanted reindeer forest. I parked on 10th Street, hopped out of the car, and looked over my shoulder. I saw this:

Virginia State Capitol, from 10th and Bank Streets

This shot may be tucked into the (late) holiday cards this year.

I took some pictures of the capitol and the skyline with us in the foreground, but we came out garishly orange thanks to the sodium vapor lights. Color correction just made us green. The solution? Black and white! I'm planning to try a few other things to see if I can get a shot of us in color, and colored like actual human beings.

Now I'm up in Alexandria again despite a Freudian brain fart during which I forgot which Mixing Bowl exit gets me to my apartment. I called Oz from the road to ask him if he remembered. He didn't, but managed to find my forgetfulness highly amusing. He accused me of having a bloggable moment.

Anyway, thanks to the vicissitudes of accumulated annual leave here in Real Job land, I am maximizing my continuous days off and minimizing the amount of leave taken by working on the 26th and 27th, then going back down to Richmond for a long New Year's weekend. More photography, more cooking, and the Kohaku. I love New Year's. It's my favorite.

Happy Holidays to all!