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950. That's all I can go back, guys. That's about Friday morning, Thursday night by my reckoning. If I missed something, poke me.

But after waiting for criminal charges to be filed against Drew, neighbors learned that local and federal prosecutors could not find a statute applicable to the case.

The community's patience dried up. Furious neighbors — and in the wake of recent media reports, an outraged public — are taking matters into their own hands.

In an outburst of virtual vigilantism, readers of blogs listed the Drews' home address, personal phone numbers, e-mail addresses and photographs of the couple.

Dozens of people allegedly have called local businesses that work with the Drew family's advertising-booklet company and flooded the phone lines this week at a local discount department store where Curt Drew reportedly works.

"I posted that — where Curt works. I'm not ashamed to admit that," said Trever Buckles, 40, a neighbor whose two teenage boys grew up with Meier. "Why? Because there's never been any sense of remorse or public apology from the Drews, no 'maybe we made a mistake.' "

Local teenagers and residents protest just steps from their tiny porch. A fake 911 call, claiming a man had been shot inside the Drew home, sent police to surround the one-story house. People drive through the neighborhood in the middle of the night, screaming, "Murderer!"

Yup, there's an update. Uh, guys? While these are the instigators? They didn't act alone. Just...tuck that away someplace, 'kay?

I'm so glad Jim's out of that place, and my BIL knew better than to move there.

White people fucking scare me.

I think we were nineteen. I think we might have been twenty or twenty-one people. I'm not sure anymore. I do know the house was ready, food was served half an hour late (we TRIED to wait for Cedric, but he was delayed an hour past the witching hour), but there was plenty of everything and nobody went away unhappy. I think. People who came? Too nice to say otherwise. I'm sure of it.

I just didn't get to visit much. I really need to do something about that next year - now that I have actually getting the house ready, dinner planned and served down to a fine-tuned hum. I had 16 last year and it was a total battle. This year? House ready the night before, lots of food prepped and ready to go - by the time I got Alex home last night, I was ready to sit down and tell my mother - it was easy!

And...it was. Scarily so. Note to self - having house cleaned and done before Monday the key to it all. I won't have to do much more to get ready for Christmas and New Years than vacuum and dust. SCHWEET.

Get ready for the LJ roll call.

In addition to the members of my family (and slightly extended family due to BIL), we had caitlin and terredancer (who put in yeoman duties above and beyond, in addition to flying through some of the WORST holiday delays I can recall and getting to bed at 2:00 AM on Thanksgiving as a result), snobahr with family (SO and boyzilla...who is getting HOOGE and scary smart) bringing doodlesthegreat...in addition to betnoir and westernslope coming over and being perfect houseguests...I had just enough time to say HI! and before I knew it...they had to go. Getting ready for Loscon and all that - while I felt much like too little butter over too much bread. (Thanks Sis, for dragging me out of the house to go to the beach in the middle of things. Thanks. *oh well*)

Pictures coming soon to the Facebook account.

The day after? Downtown Disney with grand-nephew Alex, Cait and Terry - which included Build-a-Bear. Then...shopping! (In the midst of the shower breaking, the carbon-monoxide alarm going off and other assorted weirdness.) We got to Marukai, 99 Ranch Market, Trader Joes...and two thrift stores, one of which was having a 50% off sale. EVERYTHING. Take that, Black Friday! Right in the eye!

Saturday was a total metro day to Griffith Observatory - which was fantastic until we had to wait 45 minutes for the driver to show up to actually use the equipment parked at the Red Line connection to get to the facility. LA DOT, you suck.

We managed to do the observatory and meet up with catsonmars for Curry House that night. WINNARS WERE US. (Again, pictures to follow. Think restaurant windows done up for Christmas with the largest collection of Ultraman action figures I've seen to date...wearing Santa suits.)

Sunday morning - get the girls to LAX, the boy to Hemet. Me, home in one piece, safe and fed.

Thanksgiving, 2007 - in the can. RAH!

950. That's all I can go back, guys. That's about Friday morning, Thursday night by my reckoning. If I missed something, poke me.

But after waiting for criminal charges to be filed against Drew, neighbors learned that local and federal prosecutors could not find a statute applicable to the case.

The community's patience dried up. Furious neighbors — and in the wake of recent media reports, an outraged public — are taking matters into their own hands.

In an outburst of virtual vigilantism, readers of blogs listed the Drews' home address, personal phone numbers, e-mail addresses and photographs of the couple.

Dozens of people allegedly have called local businesses that work with the Drew family's advertising-booklet company and flooded the phone lines this week at a local discount department store where Curt Drew reportedly works.

"I posted that — where Curt works. I'm not ashamed to admit that," said Trever Buckles, 40, a neighbor whose two teenage boys grew up with Meier. "Why? Because there's never been any sense of remorse or public apology from the Drews, no 'maybe we made a mistake.' "

Local teenagers and residents protest just steps from their tiny porch. A fake 911 call, claiming a man had been shot inside the Drew home, sent police to surround the one-story house. People drive through the neighborhood in the middle of the night, screaming, "Murderer!"

Yup, there's an update. Uh, guys? While these are the instigators? They didn't act alone. Just...tuck that away someplace, 'kay?

I'm so glad Jim's out of that place, and my BIL knew better than to move there.

White people fucking scare me.

I think we were nineteen. I think we might have been twenty or twenty-one people. I'm not sure anymore. I do know the house was ready, food was served half an hour late (we TRIED to wait for Cedric, but he was delayed an hour past the witching hour), but there was plenty of everything and nobody went away unhappy. I think. People who came? Too nice to say otherwise. I'm sure of it.

I just didn't get to visit much. I really need to do something about that next year - now that I have actually getting the house ready, dinner planned and served down to a fine-tuned hum. I had 16 last year and it was a total battle. This year? House ready the night before, lots of food prepped and ready to go - by the time I got Alex home last night, I was ready to sit down and tell my mother - it was easy!

And...it was. Scarily so. Note to self - having house cleaned and done before Monday the key to it all. I won't have to do much more to get ready for Christmas and New Years than vacuum and dust. SCHWEET.

Get ready for the LJ roll call.

In addition to the members of my family (and slightly extended family due to BIL), we had caitlin and terredancer (who put in yeoman duties above and beyond, in addition to flying through some of the WORST holiday delays I can recall and getting to bed at 2:00 AM on Thanksgiving as a result), snobahr with family (SO and boyzilla...who is getting HOOGE and scary smart) bringing doodlesthegreat...in addition to betnoir and westernslope coming over and being perfect houseguests...I had just enough time to say HI! and before I knew it...they had to go. Getting ready for Loscon and all that - while I felt much like too little butter over too much bread. (Thanks Sis, for dragging me out of the house to go to the beach in the middle of things. Thanks. *oh well*)

Pictures coming soon to the Facebook account.

The day after? Downtown Disney with grand-nephew Alex, Cait and Terry - which included Build-a-Bear. Then...shopping! (In the midst of the shower breaking, the carbon-monoxide alarm going off and other assorted weirdness.) We got to Marukai, 99 Ranch Market, Trader Joes...and two thrift stores, one of which was having a 50% off sale. EVERYTHING. Take that, Black Friday! Right in the eye!

Saturday was a total metro day to Griffith Observatory - which was fantastic until we had to wait 45 minutes for the driver to show up to actually use the equipment parked at the Red Line connection to get to the facility. LA DOT, you suck.

We managed to do the observatory and meet up with catsonmars for Curry House that night. WINNARS WERE US. (Again, pictures to follow. Think restaurant windows done up for Christmas with the largest collection of Ultraman action figures I've seen to date...wearing Santa suits.)

Sunday morning - get the girls to LAX, the boy to Hemet. Me, home in one piece, safe and fed.

Thanksgiving, 2007 - in the can. RAH!

I'm not going, nope, not spending those hundreds of dollars just to get in, park, eat, what have you.

However, it *is* local, and checking my FL, a ton of folks ARE going.

Tell you what. I definitely have a pie and coffee slot on Sunday afternoon/evening if anyone wants to use it. Let me know.