Chrismahanakwanzaka in the Keys

[Simon]

5:30 AM

I'm sitting outside with my notebook this morning, watching the moon pick its way through some high thin clouds. It's about 68 degrees (farenheit) now, should be 78 degrees by noon. If the predictions are right, we may dip down to 59 by tomorrow night. Pretty cool for here, but I really miss seeing snow today, and I'm wishing for colder weather. Next year I'll be looking for a new place out west somewhere. Someplace with mountains. Maybe a cabin on a mountain.

Well, it's Christmas morning and I want to take a minute to say Merry Christmas to everyone, whether you celebrate it or not. And I want to send whatever other holiday greetings may apply to any and all everywhere today.

I missed saying this on Thanksgiving ('cause my head was in all the wrong places), but I want to say thank you to many people today. Of course, a thank you to all the Link List and TGP owners who've listed our hosted free sites and galleries. And thank you to all those here who've shared info on how to do some things I didn't know how to do. And how to do some things I didn't know I needed to do. I had a lot of questions when I started posting here, and the answers I've gotten from board members have helped me learn a lot of very valuable things. Actually, I have even more questions now, but I've learned that that's a good thing too.

Finally, I want to say thank you to those who noticed I wasn't around as much in the last two months and reached out to find out what was up. This past hurricane season blew a lot of things away, and drowned some others. The storms were bad enough, but they were followed by the end of a long-time primary relationship, and then the loss of a great house that we'd been in for the last two years. Having to find a new place, pack, and move, with only a couple of weeks to get it all done, and right before Christmas, was a little more pressure than I usually like. lol Oh yeah, plus the flu with 101 degree fever didn't help things much either.

I'm still moving things to and from storage, and unpacking boxes, but eventually everything will be back on a more level footing, and my intention is to bounce back stronger than ever in 2006. It's the old..."that which does not kill us, certainly does piss us off and makes us take names and kick ass"... or something like that. ::grin::

Okay, enough about me. More important...thanks again to all the great people around here for so many things.

And Merry Christmas to you and all of yours.

Simon