Fur, Fiber and Christmas

 "Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Merry Christmas, from me and the Vince Gauraldi Trio

 "We should infer in the case of a beautiful dwelling place that it was built for its owners, and not for mice.  We ought, therefore, in the same way to regard the universe as the dwelling place of the gods." - Chrysippus

This Year's Christmas

 "Fire tests gold.  Suffering tests men." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Merry Christmas Eve

 "A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others." - Marcus Aurelius

Like many others, I find myself working on Christmas Eve.  I don't mind working on a high holiday, because what I do matters to society.  I play a minor part in supplying electricity to people's homes, to hospitals, to traffic signals and municipal waste treatment plants, etc.  Likewise first responders, hospital staff and care facilities that attend to the lives of the sick and elderly - those are important things too.

So with that in mind, I'm OK foregoing spending the day with those I love, and instead spending it  somewhere I'd rather not be. 

This time of year

 "Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil" - Marcus Aurelius

Random thoughts and doings between Thanksgiving and Christmas

 "Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than his own soul." - Marcus Aurelius

Feeling Broke

I'm feeling quite a bit poorer than I have in a while.  Part of that is due to Christmas, and all the gifts that need to be purchased and shipped.  That part I'm used to.