…Seasonal Affective Disorder, that is.  The sun is rising at 7:00 and setting at 4:00, a measly nine hours of sunlight, much of which has been marred by cloudy, rainy, and snowy weather.  Eighteen more days of this…I got the “get me to my solstice blues.”

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Jeremy update:  The Lakers are getting it together (“it” meaning defense and team offense) and last night won their fifth game (against twelve losses).  Last week they had a particularly good win over the Toronto Raptors, the number one team in the East.  They also lost squeakers to the strong Memphis Grizzlies and Minnesota Timberwolves.

Jeremy’s numbers aren’t always spectacular, but he did rack up a double double the week before last.  More importantly, every game he makes several exceptional plays that make people sit up and take notice.  He has won over the formerly critical announcers, who now seem to enjoy saying his euphonious name (“Jer-e-my LIN!”)  He still passes the ball too much to Kobe, but nowadays Kobe is actually passing it back to him, often for a three-point attempt.  He is second on the club only to Kobe in three-point shooting, and the coaches are trying to cultivate this side of his game.

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We had a new bed delivered yesterday.  We are bequeathing our old Tempurpedic queen to the kids as kind of a “guest room” bed, and bought ourselves a new one.  Yesterday it was “frozen” having been in the truck all day, but some room and body temperature got it going.  Unfortunately the lounge-style (hospital-style) foundation did not fit up our old-fashioned winding staircase, so we had to trade it in for a split boxspring set.  The price of living in a hundred year-old house…

Thanks for reading, friends.