Taking off to spend X'mas with the family in Houston, TX.   After a couple days there, I'll be in NYC for New Years with a few other members of the vast Valloppillil diaspora.   I'm enough of a geek that it's likely that blogging will continue amidst the revelry albeit at a slower pace.

There's something about being in a mega Wal-Mart on X'mas eve that feels so Texas.   Unless you've lived here, there's no way to explain what it's truly like  ;-)  Many folks in my adopted home of San Francisco would see it as the epitome of crass commercialism and low brow kitsch.  And it is.  But God help me, I love it so.