A shout from the darkness

Whew, I just went through a week without access to most of the Internet.

After a few days of Christmas at my mom's house with my brothers, we booked it up to Conway, Ark. We spent five or six days hanging out with Amy's family.

Her aunt has some kind of super strict porn blocker that also blocks my e-mail, blogger, MySpace and newspaper Web sites.

We drove to Little Rock on Christmas to eat at the Peabody hotel. Yes, the same as in Memphis. We saw the ducks, ate some food -- not duck obviously -- and gorged ourselves on desserts galore.

When we could finally walk, we drove over to see her uncle, who we have deemed "Crazy Uncle David." He freaked out one of the ministers at our wedding -- we had one on reserve.

Later, we drove to the most crowded theater in Little Rock on the busiest cinema day of the year. We split into two teams of boys and girls and took on the masses.

We made it back just in time to eat some dinner and watch The Office. Not bad.