And Happy Chanuka, to all my readers.
Posting will be light/non-existent for the next couple weeks. Patricia and I are flying to London tomorrow evening, for our first real vacation in a long time, and we’re scrambling around, while making a Christmas Eve dinner, to prepare for the trip. We’ll be there, and on the Continent (largely Benelux and France), and back on January 7th.
2016 has been a rough year (even ignoring the politics), with the death of Patricia’s eldest brother and mother, and all the time I spent in Florida getting the house ready to sell. But we sold it, and she has a new job, and we’re going to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Paris, where neither of us have ever been. We’ll try not to get blown up or stabbed or run over.
[Christmas-morning update]
I’ve always thought that the Wexford Carol was one of the most beautiful. Hard to imagine it being done better than this.
And on a lighter note, “I Saw Daddy Pat Down Santa Claus.”
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, this is heartwarming.
Two T-Rexes Fighting Over Baby Jesus.
Merry Christmas! pic.twitter.com/5q9uYADsAO
— Faces in Things (@FacesPics) December 25, 2016
[Update a while later]
It’s that crucial time of year to give your cat an annual performance review.
Merry-Merry, and Happy-Happy, Rand and Patricia.
Have a GREAT time – we’ll be here when you get back.
We’ll try not to get blown up or stabbed or run over.
That’s no joke. Keep yourself safe and have fun. Hopefully it will be a great start on a great decade. We really dodged the bullet this last election. I thought the Carter years were bad!
Hey, congrats on getting the house sold.
Safe travels, and Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in this brave new world!
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas Rand! Congrats on selling the house. Hope you have a terrific vacation in Europe. My wife and I took our daughter to Paris this past July and it was wonderful. We definitely put to rest the myth that the French hate Americans, they were consistently very warm and polite. So many highlights of that visit, but Versailles was our favorite.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours Rand and thanks for all you do for us with this blog.
Merry Christmas, Rand, to you and your family. I hope you and Patricia have a wonderful time.
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year.
May 2017 bring Rand, his family, the commenters, and the lurkers health, wealth, and happiness.
Hope you guys have fun,
You can easily spend a day or two in the Louvre alone.
Don’t waste too much time on the Eiffel Tower.
I liked visiting Notre Dame and the Louvre when I was there.
We’ll just look at it from afar. Our apartment has a sixth-floor view of it.
Merry Christmas Rand and Patricia. I’m so glad you sold your house! What a wonderful present. And now you can enjoy the Paris sights (heh heh). BTW. this heartwarming Christmas song has always been one of my favorites.
That didn’t work quite as expected. Here’s the video.