Another activity with the Calvinists on Friday night: a talent show featuring the kiddies playing holiday tunes on various instruments, then a traditional Christmas dinner. Found out that the lawyer in our congregation was involved with a very famous case recently, and was pestered for months by reporters from CNN, BBC, etc. Another person at the table was a former court reporter, so he and the lawyer swapped amusing anecdotes about local attorneys and judges. I didn't have much to add to the conversation, but I did contribute the bull's blood.