Hello my dear Christmas family,

The wonder in this years wonderland is that I wonder how I'm going to get it all done.
Due to some unforeseen events I'm just getting started today, a full 3 weeks behind my normal start.

My work is exceedingly busy right now, I've been working about 55 hours a week, just turned 59 last month and the plain truth is I'm beat.

But enough crying the blues old man it's Christmas, time to make the magic happen once again.
Time to turn this thing off and get crackin'.

Look forward too seeing everybody's holiday efforts this year.
Seasons greetings my friends lets make it one of the best ever,this sad old world of ours desperately needs the joy of Christmas this year.

I'll leave you with one of my favorite passages from Dickens A Christmas Carol'

"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest. 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!"

Papa