By any measure of comparison, my December 30 was better than that experienced by billions of people in the world.

However, may I mention the two hours it took me to put together the second-hand water-bed I got for Christmas (used to be Baz le Tuff's), and the three hours I've spent since then cleaning up the flood caused by my trying to rush-start an 18-hour-late Almanac and then losing track of the time while toilet-reading about the Chase family haunted vaults in Barbados?

My mind only went to Barbados for about fifteen minutes but as God found during the first week, you can wet a lot of stuff in a quarter of an hour.

Back to the Almanac. I should have started the next one already LOL

Thank you.