Solstice

Winding down slowly towards Christmas (I refuse to call it "Festivus" or whatever the hell else is fashionable today). I was reading over my blog posts from last year at this time, when I was in Canada visiting my family and relatives, and feeling somewhat blue. Winter in Germany is just not real winter, it's too warm and too wet. There is a big difference in comfort between walking in the rain at +2° and walking in snow at -2°, I definitely prefer the latter but what can one do? (Were you infer from this that it rained heavily today, you'd be right.)

Work is mostly finished, I have a few phone calls still to make and two CDs to burn for new customers, customized versions of the database including their letterhead and logos etc.

I will be spending two days in the Black Forest with G's family, which has become something of a tradition in the years when I'm not in Canada; then of course New Year's Eve with Chirpy. In the week between the two, I shall clean up the apartment and my life, putting things in order for 2006 (which incidentally is going to be a much better year than 2005 was).

In case I don't write again before then: merry Christmas, happy Chanukah and a jolly Kwanzaa to you and yours, dear readers. Be kind to each other, and above all to yourselves.