Cromely's World

On Black Friday I opted out of shopping (I've served my time in retail). In years past I've gone to the Holiday parade, but this tim...

I'm quite lucky, this year, for a number of reasons.  To begin with, it looks like we are facing massive flight disruption in the Northe...

I used to be one of those people who did all his Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve.  There are a lots of practical reasons for that, I sup...

The GF and I checked out the Seattle Center in December and stumbled on a grisly scene. The Christmas Village in the Center House was the sc...

It's time once again for my pre-CES ritual.  It's time to remove the Christmas music from my iPod. About 80% of my iPod listening ...

I had a post all ready to go with some musing on the pointlessness of New Year's resolutions.  But the more I thought about it, the less...

Yesterday wasn’t the only Christmas I had. Before the GF headed to California for the Holidays, we had our own Christmas around a very cute...

It was a swell Christmas this year.  We had great food and the cats didn't object too strongly to being randomly pelted with wrapping pa...

While the Lexus commercials do remind me that the Christmas season is here, they are not my favorite Christmas time commercials.  No, that t...

Back when I was in college, I'd come home for the holidays and do my last minute Christmas shopping on the 24th.  I'd borrow the car...

Once again, the GF and I trudged down the hill, bellys sloshing with last night's dinner, to the Seattle Macy's Holiday Parade.  Our...