christmas eve eve

i have to work today. and tomorrow. and then again on wednesday and thursday. kara and i only get the actual holidays off, christmas day and new year's day, but i guess that's what comes from working in healthcare. people are hospitalized as i write this, and they are being seen by doctors and nurses and physician's assistants, perhaps even undergoing surgeries, and the reports dictated about those encounters have to be typed up. am i wrong? but my sister and brother-in-law are educators so they get a week and more off. they've already been with my parents in maryland for a few days, already celebrating the holiday. but i'm not bitter.

i'm getting old - i changed out the two jane's addiction cds for a lucinda williams and a dwight yoakam. poor dwight yoakam - we saw him perform in the benaroya hall in seattle just 3 or 4 years ago, and now he's playing the emerald queen casino. i feel bad; i like dwight.

on friday evening kara and i went back to the six olives, ostensibly a martini bar. the proprietress, eve, knows her scotch and kara likes her scotch. and by the time we got there, before 4:30, it seemed eve had already downed a few. she spent virtually the whole evening with us, giving us scotch samples and explaining the regions and whatnot. she was energetic in expressing her feelings about liquor sales reps who don't know their liquor, who want to hide the taste of their liquor with mixers, and who steal her drink ideas. and she had her load on, big time.

kara likes the lowlands and the isles, the peaty taste with serious bite. i'm more of a highlands man, and enjoy a smoother drink. so it goes. we had a good time, and some good scotch. eve left us alone after a while and we had a little something to eat.

should i go for a master's in library science? this idea has been in the back of my mind for 10 years or so. i might do a little research into it.