Stay warm and eat lots of fruit / drink lots of fruit juice (not the concentrated kind, choose stuff that actually has some surviving vitammins!).

And have a good christmas too, you and your family!

I’ll be enjoying Half Life 2: Episode One as part of mine. Hope you enjoy your new toys.

Dang, Les, are we living in parallel or what?  After Elwed and the little one spent the week with a cold, I got home early from work on Friday ... and promptly felt the storm front moving into my sinuses.

It’s letting down your guard that does it, y’know.  We should never do that.

Me too!!!  We must be triplets.

I thought I had dodged that cold that my partner had for the last week.  But now he’s feeling much better, and I’m coughing constantly and my throat’s pretty sore.

Yup...just in time for my 11 days off.  Timing couldn’t be better.

Oh well, it’s just a cold.  Happy Holidays to you all. Best wishes for the new year.

Well you’re having a better holiday than I am. My asshole father has ruined Christmas yet again. Every fucking year he turns into an asshole and manages to come up with the dumbest arguments ever. For example: we are planning Christmas breakfast and we were going for something simple and easy to make and clean up. So eggs and toast was suggested. He seriously started to argue that we should have pancakes instead and declared “what’s the difference between toast and pancakes"). So somehow toast and pancakes are the same thing (both somehow take the same time to make and make the same amount of mess to cleanup despite the fact that toast requires a self contained toaster and pancakes require a mixing bowl, griddle, etc.) and anyone who disagrees with him is attacking him and I can come up with dozens of these arguments from just the last two days alone. :(