Well well.  Here we are.  Rather, here I am and there you are.  No matter where we go, that much remains constant, doesn’t it?  So I think I’m going to take a few days off from the ol’ blog and spend (Western) Christmas pondering that.  

I keep thinking that metaphor needs to take a somewhat different tack, if we’re going to get to where we’re going, from wherever we are. It’s a mathematical problem: subtracting the net of where we are from the total of where we’re going, in order to solve where we were, and at least a few of the adjusted gross places we’ve been since we left.  I’m sure you understand.  

I plan on taking notes.  

And abstaining from Christmas cookies.  

Ho ho ho, and so it goes.