A lovely, happy, and hopefully stress-free Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates this gluttonous holiday!

    I don’t know what it is about 2023, but I’m seeing a large, and some might say unacceptable, amount of pre-Thanksgiving holiday lights appearing on people’s homes. In the past, there might be one or two that would light up their eaves early, but this time it feels like I missed a memo.

    At this rate, my house is going to be the last one with lights up this year.

    Best of luck to everybody as we all accidentally write 2022 instead of 2023 on our various documents, checks, and other assorted date lines for a while.

    Happy 2023, everybody!

    Mine started off right: The incessant (and very welcome) rain that’s been falling throughout the night has kept people inside and away from their terrible fireworks.

    What better way to ring this one in?

    Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a lovely day.

    I wouldn’t wish for you the frigid and snowy weather that the eastern part of my country is dealing with, but I’m also not wishing for the mid-80° weather we have in Southern California. Winter wonderland, my butt.

    Happy New Year to the world! 🎉

    It’s impossible to promise that 2022 will be empirically better than previous years, but I can still wish for you relaxation, success, contentment, love, and lots of cute animal cuddling.

    Also, happy first anniversary to my wife and me!

    Merry Christmas to everyone!

    I hope you have a lovely day full of cheer, family, friends, giving and receiving nice presents, delicious meals, and as much happiness as you can stuff into a day. 🎄

    All I don’t want for Christmas is finding rain water leaking into the house through a window frame and under the eaves of the roof.

    I’d like to send this terrible present straight back to the North Pole, thank you very much!

    As it happens every year, the confusion and stress of trying to schedule a holiday visit with everyone in my life are enough to make me not want to do any of it. A quiet day with my wife (and some cozy blankets, Christmas music, and maybe gingerbread cookies) sounds way better.

    So it’s a universally held truth that calories don’t count during the holiday season, right?

    …Right?