Happy holidays to all. Special thanks to everyone for the support and accountability. Having a place to share struggles really helps keep my head in a better place. I wish you all joy and happiness.

QOTD: I once had a professor hand out blue books for an exam, and write the tests only question on the board. It said "What else do you know?" We had 50 minutes -- Go! So, I request -- ask and answer your own holiday question.

Merry and happy, y'all!

I would stab someone to get that plate of desserts.

Morning gang. I'm just about to head out to the butcher shop for a Christmas roast. I feel like I should wear ruby slippers or something.

We're doing Christmas dinner here. I think there will be 7 of us? And we go to my bff's house for a Christmas eve party. I've been doing that for at least 20 years now.

Apologies for the lack of pictures. I haven't taken one for a few weeks now. I'll try and remember.

Your program will tell you if you need to. But you should do it anyway. You'll be better off.

Morning gang. It looks like another perfectly average day. Not surprisingly it's much easier for me to stay on the straight and narrow, food wise, if I'm having a regular routine at home.

QOTD: I think the drone sightings are . . . drones. Seriously, the things are everywhere. When I started to process to switch to solar, the guy flew a big old drone up, inspected the house and roof, and flew it in ever larger circles around the house and quite a ways out. They did a whole big 3D model that would show them how much sun the roof would get at all times of the day and year.

Insurance companies are using drones constantly. People are getting cancelation notices if it looks like their roof is getting old, or if trees could fall in a storm and trigger a claim. They look for things like backyard trampolines, and issue cancelation warnings. They look for dogs in backyards that are against their policies. Drones let them do things they never could before. And all the different insurance companies all have insured homes in the same neighborhoods. People complain about big government, but it's Goliath business we need to rein in and control. They stick their noses in our business far, far too much.

Regular folks have super fancy drones. My brother has a nice one. It has GPS, and can fly to a set spot and return. It can measure the heights of trees and houses, record amazing video, and all kinds of stuff. It's got sensors so that it can stay perfectly stationary in a stiff breeze. It's pretty wild.

Drones are everywhere.

I don't doubt there are people on other planets. I'm not sure they've ever been here. If they have, they are so much more advanced than we are that we aren't going to see them.

Hey gang. It sounds like you had a great anniversary. And I love the logs.

I just got back from mailing some Christmas presents. It really snuck up on me -- It seems early, but the packages will only get there on the 23rd.

Food and activity are on track. Rib roasts have been on sale, and I cooked a five pound roast on Saturday and I've just been eating that. Ham cat is happy. He also jumped onto the stove and started licking the drippings.

QOTD: I don't think of it as a Christmas movie. There are movies that have Christmas as a central theme, and then those, like Die Hard, that take place at Christmas, but could have happened anytime.

My favorite spin on it was that Die Hard is a movie about someone running around a tower, always at odds with Alan Rickman. So, it's a Harry Potter movie. The other one I like is for Love Actually fans, a Christmas movie. If you watch Love Actually followed by Die Hard, at the end Alan Rickman gets punished for what he did to Emma Thompson.

We never had a garden. Neither of my parents did and sort of horticulture. They were very keen on me cutting the grass though.

My father's folks always had a garden though. All I can really remember are tomatoes and blueberry bushes, but there was other stuff.

Happy Anniversary!

I had my 1 year knee checkup this morning, and they seemed pretty happy. I don't need to go back unless I have an issue.

Food is on track, which feels nice. JB has two classes this weekend, but nothing else is really going on. Which is nice.

QOTD: I don't have any plans for new exercise next year. Just keep doing what I've been doing.

Hi gang. Just getting home from dropping JB at the train, after bringing her in for an upper GI. I've got to go back in to the same hospital tomorrow morning. It's my one year follow-up from my knee replacements.

I'm happy to be back in a good groove, food wise, after crappy Thanksgiving eating. For me, it's really hard to get into that groove, but easier to stay there once I'm in it.

QOTD: I believe time travel will be possible, some day. But I don't think any humans have done it so far. I doo like some good time travel fiction.

Yay for a victory over chocolate.

Dip? Ewww. Sorry. I'm not a dip resource. I like my foods un-dipped.

Yay for Gizmo!