Yule Be Back

Newbury Street provided nearly all of my remaining Christmas gifts tonight, plus three people who liked my hat. (One of them liked it twice!) It was a pleasant stroll with my sweetie down a wide avenue strung with lights; comparing it to the snarling madhouse that prevailed inside Target today, I had to wonder why mall-diving is ever preferable to shop-to-shop wandering, if you're lucky enough to have the option. Me one; Grinch zero.

Bonus points: the 57 dropped us off at the new Kenmore busway, which just opened tonight. Pretty swank, if not quite finished, and we got to be among the first to use it.