OK, so I’m going to visit my parents for Christmas and won’t get a chance to say this anytime closer to the actual event.
I know, you’re all crushed that I won’t be around. Me too. 
But, anyway, yeah…to all my friends and acquaintances on the boards and in chat, Happy Holidays (to be all-inclusive). And to those of you who aren’t friends or acquaintences, we’ll work on changing that next year, eh? But Happy Holidays and all of that to y’all, too.
I hereby open this thread for invasion by any and all posses, cliques, associations, youth groups, Calvinball teams, loners, lurkers, diplomats, Illuminati, Discordians, rock stars, freaks, geeks, dweebs, weirdos, drunks, druggies, college students, hedonists, monks, hedonist monks, pagans, Wiccans, Dionysians, members of every extant religious denomination, Santa and his reindeer, and any other interesting people who may want to drop by.
You can thank me later