Oh, my goodness. We're slated to head out to Ventura in a few hours; we are so not ready. I
did manage to compress a few weeks of holiday prep into one long day yesterday; the gifts are all made, packaged, wrapped, and ready to go. I did fail to make cookies, but i'm sure Allison and Daniel will help me out when i get to Ventura.

Russell and i exchanged our gifts yesterday - i'll leave you with a little reading material. My main gift was another story about Squamous and Eldritch (a follow-on to the story that accompanied them in 2000), cuminating in the promise of a date on January 4. I'll leave you for a few days to see if you can guess the show and dinner location; it took me about 10 minutes. ;)