Merry Christmas! (and a quote from A Christmas Carol)

"But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!" - A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Merry Christmas, folks. I'll be gone until next Tuesday, visiting the precious niece for her very first Christmas, eating far too much, drinking even more than that, and generally overdoing it for the holiday. Here's to lots of time for reading and sleeping and whatever else you try to do in your time off!