Taking lots of pictures. My mind is in a tizzy. Family surrounding me, working on my end-of-year mental housekeeping, so many kids around, almost all better from my sore throat/fever, missing all my friends and looking forward to seeing them again.

Merry Christmas everyone (and of course, Happy Yule, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Eristide, or what have you). I'll be doing a lot of writing the next few days, and I'll have pictures to match, all going up when I get back.

Other notes: It's amazing how much christmas shopping you can do at Costco. It would be really nifty if someone invented an inline coupler for phone lines, a little box you could put between your phone and the phone line, that would prevent someone from accidentally picking up the phone and breaking into your modem call, but would let people pick up on voice convos. That would sell really well.

Okay, nothing to say that wouldn't turn into a huge story, so I'd better free up the phone line (40 people and 1 phone has some drawbacks).

Byeee! (And THANKS KAREN!)