{"id":8313,"date":"2005-12-19T06:18:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T13:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/12\/19\/christmas-watch-2005-2.html"},"modified":"2005-12-19T06:18:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T13:18:15","slug":"christmas_watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/19\/christmas_watch.html","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Watch 2005!"},"content":{"rendered":"

And the latest breaking news from the Christmas Watch 2005 situation room!<\/p>\n

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  1. \"best\" GIFTS: Concerted late-night effort on Sunday punched us through about 95% of the gift-purchasing. Of course, with Christmas but a week away, that means either paying extra for shipping or getting late presents. My estimate is that we’ll have about half our gifts arriving in time for gifting on Christmas Day, and about 85% by the time of the Ks Christmas Party the following Friday (which is the other big surge). Still need to find gifts for some of the young-uns, but I’d say we’ve at least done what we can for the moment.\n

    In the “not our fault” category, gifts for the local friends gift exchange tonight are going to be at least half printed out, since Amazon’s ship date has slipped to later this week for most of them. Alas.<\/p>\n

  2. \"okay\" CARDS: Didn’t get the address list printed off before my trip so … no progress. Very Rrg. Going to take a last-ditch effort over the next few days. <\/p>\n
  3. \"worst\" DECORATIONS: No progress. Katherine’s a bit disappointed. Me, too.<\/p>\n
  4. \"best\" TRAVEL: Need to get packed, but I have the home gifts sorted out between what’s going and what’s staying, and our travel out for the holidays is usually packing-lite on the way out (on the way home it resembles planning for Hannibal’s assault on the Alps, but that’s not part of Christmas Watch 2005).<\/ol>\n

    This has been an update from Christmas Watch 2005!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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