Back from the hallowed strip malls of lower New Joisy and none the worse for wear. Had a fine Thanksgiving in almost every respect. I have begun to note the truth in Franklin’s statement that, “Fish and visitors stink in three days.” By Sunday I was definitely ready to get back to my little fortress of solitude and not have to deal with folks for at least a couple of hours.
My bro scored tickets for bleacher seats at the Thanksgiving Day parade. Pretty nifty, we sort of got to see the musical numbers and such. Pity that it’s not really a parade anymore, everything comes to a complete halt for commercial breaks and every two or three floats things halt while someone or other floods into the street and puts on a show for the television cameras. Pretty annoying and pretty slooooow. Did the annual family pictures with the creepy guy and then settled in for the big dinner. Lots of grub, lots of laughs when we all wrote down what we were thankful for. As usual the big winners were Bob (inside joke), Cool Whip and this year Lyles’s singing. Lyles is a co-worker of my brother’s who was saved from a Thanksgiving alone by being dragged into our little vortex of madness. Luckily she was a good sport and even got up and did a rousing duet of Dixie (she’s southern) with my bro. Damn funny.
Friday started slow but ended sitting in the emergency room waiting for them to find a bed for my grandpop. He’s as well as he ever is but it seems like he needs a semi-annual trip to the hospital just to mellow out for a couple of days. It was better than sitting around the house all day anyway.
Saturday we saw the new Water Works Interpretive Center at Fairmount. It was gratifying to see that someone had finally tried to make something out of that very cool little site. I wasn’t so keen on the environmental stuff but the historical info was excellent. Ran downtown afterwards and wandered around the Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians for a little while. Nothing like oversized colons and dead babies in jars to round out a lovely day.
The Eagles won, the President proved himself a hell of a leader, the turkey was excellent, my cousin’s float and homecoming skit won first prize. I’d say all is right with the world.