Day three of owning a bird feeder: my kid has named two of the birds. Both cardinals, he has imaginatively named the male “Card” and the female “Car”.

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the cookies
that were by
the fireplace

and which
you were probably
leaving
for Santa

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so soft

It won’t be a white Christmas in St. Louis this year, but it won’t be 70° like last year, either. See what the weather has been like historically leading up to Christmas in this @observablehq notebook. https://observablehq.com/@brentajones/white-christmas

I just got a phone call asking if I was “the reference library.” And, sometimes it does feel that way.

Maybe I should’ve humored them, just to take on the challenge. (Of course, there’s no way I could out-research a professional reference librarian. Fun idea though.)

My kid in a small group Hangout with classmates: “Guess what number I’m going to say. It starts with a one, then a zero and another zero.”

A minute later: “Ok, the next one will be harder. It’s a one, a zero and a one.”

I enjoyed Netflix’s Christmas musical Jingle Jangle, and so did my kids. Especially dug the set and costume design.