Monday Meanderings - 12.19.2011

Santa came early and brought an iPad. Apple, the original minimalist company, included these instructions - and only these instructions - for using the iPad (the pen is to show you the scale of the information card):

Now here is the 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of instructions for the cover!

More than twice the amount of information for attaching and using the cover than for the device itself!

And now we have the problem that confronts all of us media-savvy, socially-conscious,  cyber families - where to plug in all the charging stations?

Formula 1 is back on the agenda for Austin. However, in order to fund it, now they are going to set it up as a toll road. All the cars stop at toll booths once a lap and pay a fee.

I was wearing my Santa hat at the recording studio the other day and one of the regulars came in and said, "Santa, I've been very naughty. But of course you knew that, didn't you?"

It's been raining off and on for a week now. That's not a bad thing in Texas, mind you, but it reminds us of how fickle we are when it comes to weather. It even makes one think nostalgically of those days of summer. Those 80 days in a row of triple digit summer. Okay, maybe not yet, but I sure would like to see some sunshine.

Surprisingly, there is now more color in the leaves in this area than we have seen in several years. It seems late in the season for that, especially considering the drought conditions all year. But they are beautiful, unless they have all fallen off - like the leaves in my front yard.

I'm really hoping for a good breeze to come along and blow these in my neighbor's yard, as usual.