Miraclo Miles

The Post-Holiday Re-awakening: The Ingrate Speaks! It's a difficult transition back to the workaday grind -- it's always stunningly frightening how any stretch of time off from work goes. Here we are again, on the far side of a rare, rare block of time off, head whirling with how it could have become now so soon. An old, familiar story. Still, that's another set of issues. What I'm here for now is an overdue end-cap to the December 25th post, something I should have gotten to in one or two installments during the holiday stretch as they involved holiday gifts and kindnesses that didn't roll around until days after Christmas. Chicago-based buddy Grant sent me one of the Super Rare (always looks and sounds silly, but that's its technical rarity class) pieces I'd missed pulling from the Heroclix Arkham Asylum set -- The Flash. It's a fun Jay Garrick sculpt complete with his Cosmic Treadmill. I'm one of those who could have done without the extra bit...

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...