1/3/10 Sunday update

[Gay Haldeman]

Home and comfy now. Carrying around a quart bottle of antibiotic set  
up for continuous infusion (it's under pressure, and releases the  
drug all day through the PICC line in my upper arm).

We put off Christmas till this morning; Lore, Tim and Barbara came  
over at 8:30 for opening presents. Not quite as much of a consumer  
orgy as usual, since I was indisposed and couldn't even go shopping  
on the web. I got some nice fountain pens. Gay got me a chrome yellow  
extra-fine Lamy Safari, to replace the one I got last Xmas and lost,  
and a wonderful Pelikan, which used to be the standard for italic  
handwriting, and is newly back on the market. Barbara gave me the  
Pelikano Junior, the European schoolkids' version, which I'll keep in  
my purse.

Gay also got me a lovely large (#14) watercolor brush, a Kolinski  
sable from Daniel Smith. Many books from divers sources. Billy  
Collins and Elmore Leonard, to go from the poetic to the prosaic.

A replacement chamois shirt from LL Bean -- my old one is going on  
thirty years old, and decided not to last forever.

Just went out and walked a few blocks with Gay. Brr -- it's in the  
thirties out there, and may drop below 20 tonight. Hope the  
alligators are okay down under the mud. Don't come knockin'!

Gay got a new couch that incorporates two recliners with built-in  
massagers.
  Decadent. You have to feed them three times a day, but they're  
pretty small.

Joe
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