Times of the Signs

Best holiday idea for 2010:

Visited a friends' house - to make holiday cleanup easier this year, our friends have placed their wired, clear plastic storage container of ornaments on the floor, plugged it in and placed their gifts on top.  The top view of the container's arrangement of ornaments will be revealed as they hand out and open the family holiday presents (the presents put inside prewrapped, hinged gift boxes that can be reused every year).

The storage container also serves as their post gift-opening holiday dinner buffet table.

When the holidays are over, they'll unplug the container and put it back in the attic along with the reusable gift boxes.

Lazy?

No, just a typical geeky engineering couple looking for many ways to hack the holidays and optimise their time.

Honour Your Mother and Father

Although some would deny the heritage of their mothers and thus invite the animosity of their electorate (both of which I find hard to accept), I am glad my nieces and nephews are proud to claim both their parents (so do I) as important inspirations in their lives.

One example - paintings by my niece, Maggie:

Continuity

Thanks to Julia for keeping the project going:

A "Thank You" a day keeps the selfishness away

Congrats to Dawn on her new job.  Thanks to Shogun for the sushi and seaweed salad, and Pizza Hut for the pasta.  An early thanks to military veterans/families for their service/sacrifice.