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HOLIDAY

I got up at the usual 3AM time today and did all my morning stuff. Then went to lead a 5AM Meeting at our AA Group. An all night affair. We had four then five people. But we were starting to get folks arriving for the regular 7AM Meeting which I stayed for. 75 people on a holiday morning. Pretty good. But that is the nature of this particular Meeting. It is the place to be especially on a holiday like this one. Start the day right.

Home to a piece of stollen, my second, then some Skype with the folks in Scituate MA.

I was writing an email to my son Paul in Weymouth MA and suddenly there he was on the middle of my screen. He has just gotten an iMac with the latest software just like mine and he was diddling around. Voila! We connected.

So that was a nice surprise.

We were on FaceToFace which is narrower than Skype. Narrower than the old iChat. But it was good to see the family.

Later, phone calls and email to the other family and a movie. Very good.

All three of us did the afternoon walk. It has been cloudy all day but it opened up later and got warmer. Nice.

Now, the day has become regular. Dinner, end of day stuff and bed.

No gym tomorrow as they will not open until 6AM and my day will be well on its way by that time.

We take the Volvo in tomorrow for some warranty work. All day.

John handles that for which I am grateful. He will do the shuttle thing.

So another christmas slides by. A final note.

More and more people are doing electronic cards this year. Funny. Soon, we will be doing it too. Or maybe not. The ones that count the most are the ones that are special somehow. A friend, Lou, sent a photo of his mountain top view in MountainAir New Mexico. Snow. Maybe you thought it was hot in NM. No. Most of it is too high for warm winter breezes. And it is desert cold. We have known Lou since the old St. Croix days. He is a totally transported New Yorker. He works in a morning cafe there and does NM high desert things the rest of the day. Ex Professor from Long Island goes to ground. A nice life.

It is interesting to see where people land. Take us for instance. Who would have thought?

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