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C h r i s t m a s D a y ! We did the opening of gifts late last night, rolling past midnight. By the time we were done I was more than ready for bed, as it's been a wearing run-up to the Christmas season. Mixed, conflicting emotions, I haven't been feeling very communicative at least in part because I'm not sure what's going to come out. While some breakdowns can be strangely entertaining to watch I'd rather not make a bid to be the center of attention that way. Apologies for not getting to this earlier in the day, but after a very slow, late start to the day we had to be off to make some visits. Now I'm back home and back to being at liberty. Most of my shopping (aside from that which was for the kids, as that still always comes first) was late to arrive -- some of it arriving only late Tuesday -- so I didn't get to mail anything out as yet aside from some cash I e-sent in one case. Saturday's set to be my day for dispersing what's left to be given...
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Farewell to a Professional Fan Forrest J. Ackerman, dead at the age of 92 . A man who made his fan's passions into a career, and whose Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine was a regular read for me from my pre-teens well into my teens, died yesterday. (Ah! I see that Tony Collett already had the news yesterday -- his piece includes some other remembrance links. I don't find myself with the time for much blog-crawling these days so I missed it all until this morning.)