A semi-official Christmas (etc.) message from ***Dave

Hey-howdy. My relaxing vacation continues to be a bit harried — but with today being prep for the big Christmas Eve dinner, tomorrow being our usual multi-household gifting-n-eating marathon, and Boxing Day starting out pre-dawn to race to the airport for the flight to Hawai’i (and, yes, everyone should have such “troubles”), I wanted to take the opportunity to …

… thank my readers here, end of the year, for sticking with DDtB through thick and thin. Though the individual posts have gone down a bit, I’ve tried to fill the gap with copious Google Reader “unblogged bits” and various Tweets, and hopefully it’s remained interesting, entertaining, and (for those who track the mundanity of my life) informative. But without folks actually reading and commenting … it would be a lot less in a lot of ways.

… thank my wife, who puts up with her life being posted here, too. And with my whipping out my Blackberry to Tweet things at odd intervals. And with my saying, “Just another minute” as I plow through a few dozen more Google Reader items (or, “Just another minute” as I spend the next hour finishing off some blog screed).

I have no idea what my connectivity Hawai’i is going to be — and, no, I’m not going to track down an Internet cafe in order to blog. But I’ll likely be tweeting, and posting photos, and stuff like that. But a lot of the year-end “New Years resolutions” and “bundles of swag comparisons” and “Top Ten Cheeses Eaten in Luxembourg in 2009” posts are probably going to be missing. So sad …

So, in case I don’t get anything written on the topic before then …

• A very merry Christmas to all.  For those who adhere to the religious aspects of the holiday, may the incarnation help you feel closer to God.  For those who adhere to the social aspects of the holiday, may giving and good cheer fill your lives (and good food your stomachs).  For those whose proclivities are toward another faith (or none at all), accept my sincerest wishes of happiness and contentment in the days to come.
• And a very happy New Year to all as well.  Celebrate safely, enjoy the time together, welcome the rising sun as the months lengthen, take this opportunity to renew and resolve, to leave regrets behind, to relax and to dwell on what is … and ought to be … of importance in your life.

Aloha!