Christmas Eve
I'm on vacation till after New Year's. I get off the following Fridays if Christmas and New Year's are on Thursdays. So if I invest 3 days of vacation I get nearly two weeks to spend hanging.
Steven delivered the new Dell in record time although, as I figured, if you want to trick it out at all, there's still no getting a PC for under $1K. It's up and running in all it's XP glory. A- is playing Counterstrike like there's no tomorrow. (As with the cable modem, it was A- who finally convinced me we really did need to upgrade.) I still type and think about as slowly as ever.
I always enjoy Christmas Eve. The family is here, there's great food (I cook), and the expectation of Christmas still hangs in the air. "There's nothing doner than Christmas," as my friend John Green used to say. For me Christmas Eve is the tree-topper.
K-
I know exactly what you mean. I realized while I was posting last night about my own Christmas memories that most of what makes it special is the anticipation, that long slow building process from post-Thanksgiving up through Christmas Eve. When it you wake up Christmas morning, you are suddenly on the downside and it's all over before you know it. But that's the way these things are.
A very Merry Christmas to the White family! Have a wonderful holiday. I hope you'll post something before New Year. If not, Happy New Year as well!
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Enjoy the computer!
Everything is done here, and I'm just basking in the glow for now. Merry Christmas to everyone at the White house.