Hrrm. Like everything else since I've gotten home from school, this is posted many days out of sequence. The entire Christmas season post-exams has been a blur.

Anyways, I had a nifty rah-rah Christmas message all composed and then I lost it in a browser crash. So therefore, a reconstructed, pared down message:

Merry Christmas. Peace on Earth, good will to men. To our folks overseas, I want y'all home as soon as possible. Be careful out there, as that sergeant on Hill Street Blues used to say.

Now, for something that (hopefully some will interpret positively: I went to my church's Christmas Eve candlelight service and got shanghaied into performing as a communion steward. I hate doing it, because you have to repeat a single phrase (in my case, "The body of Christ, broken for you") over and over, and because you've got to do everything right for each man, woman, and child who comes in front of you. Moreover, I had to work with bread. For reasons of sanitary concern, we wear these gloves, but my hands were too big for the things, and so I basically got to pluck chunks of bread out with these gloves on. The downside of that was that I had a pair of semi-rigid tongs since I couldn't move my fingers, so I managed to crush a lot of bread and make more of a mess than anyone else.

However, I do like, for some reason, dealing with the children whose parents bring them forward. They're usually short enough to where I've got to squat down and hand them their bread. It's a different thing than handing an anonymous adult a piece of badly-torn bread, and the kid's usually looking at you with big wide eyes. I don't know exactly how this gets through the either stoic or downright daffy persona I usually project, but it kind of warms the heart.

Enh. Now that I've done my Scrooge reformed thing for the day, time to warm up the Nike Hercules site and arm the W-31 warhead; I'm going to get that red intruder from the North if it's the last thing he ever does. That'll teach him to invade my airspace and not leave me what I asked for...

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