Well, I’m pretending to work, because why waste a vacation day when nobody else is around to verify my productivity? So y’all get links! Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, enjoy your day off for those that don’t. My Christmas is already complete. My mother declared my version of Ina Garten’s seafood chowder her “favorite meal” last night. It is damn good. I’m not at all sure it will be better than the prime rib she is making tonight, but its nice to have a family meal tradition that my mother enjoys that doesn’t involve her slaving away. As to why we made it on the 23rd, my mother-in-law is in town, but won’t stay for Christmas dinner and my wife talked up the meal so much that MiL really wanted to participate. I think that’s cool. And tonight I will bury myself in my mother’s chocolate covered cherries handed down from her mother. What are your holiday meal traditions?

Mattis performs one last act of obedience to orders given by his CiC before he leaves.

Axl Rose, fanboy of Ayn Rand. Hard to say which one is more self-indulgent, but I see why he could relate to her.

Here’s a nice Christmas story. It made my eyes sweat just a little.

Hey, Florida Man, I think you went to the well one too many times. Sure was nice of the church to leave that truck for him to load all their gear in and pawn it. Santa don’t visit the jail.

 

Time for the traditional Xmas song.