2) We did a bit of Christmas shopping -- some online, some in actual stores. We did make some phone calls that saved us a fruitless trip to Madison, and I think we are mostly done for the season as far as buying gifts. Now comes the wrapping and all that.
3) Tom and Peter decided to clean and hook up an old Nintendo they had unburied down in the basement. They inserted all the games they could find for a while. This looks like one of those projects that is way more fun working on than playing with once it is done. And what is it with those annoying arcade game sounds?
4) Tom and I watched an old Roy Rogers Show this afternoon, complete with Dale Evans, Pat Brady and Nellybelle and Bullet (Roy's wonder dog!) Truly amazing to think that we stayed glued to our television sets on Saturday afternoons watching this. Bullet, the wonder dog, was a cheap imitation of Rin Tin Tin, I think. Pat Brady was campy comic (?) relief. As for his jeep, Nellybelle, well, what can I say? Trigger, on the other hand, did manage to maintain his dignity throughout it all. (Denver Pyle, who later played Uncle Jesse on The Dukes of Hazard played an exceptionally laconic mountain man in the episode we watched. I recognized the name in the credits, but mistakenly thought it referred to Bob Denver, the actor who played Maynard G. Krebs -- everyone's favorite beatnik from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis -- and, more famously, Gilligan.)5) Did I mention I did the dishes?
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