A Belated Happy Holidays
The last few months have been crazy, and I’m glad 2009 is here. I was working two jobs for a while – my full time position back at U Penn, and running the candy business. The candy business is now completely shut down (aside from dealing with all the taxes…). Last month we had a plumbing disaster in our house – a section of the waste pipe from the 2nd floor bathroom cracked in the living room wall. Fixing it involved me tearing open walls, ceilings, and floors in 3 separate rooms – I’ll post pictures of all the repair work soon. I’m also finishing up one last project from my brief stint as a consultant, and I’m close to getting the next version of Shashin out the door. I’ve been swimming three times a week to keep my back problems in check, and as you can tell from my recent posts I was obsessed with politics during the campaign season. And somewhere in there Maria and I have been taking care of the boys, and we try to see each for a few minutes here and there. So here’s to a new year that I’m hoping will be not quite so insane.
You may recall the horrific story from Black Friday, when a Wal-Mart worker was trampled to death by a mob of frenzied holiday shoppers. This inspired the holiday cards my brother made (you might say a certain outlook on life runs in my family…). He made 17 different cards based on the same drawing, with different quotes from Jesus and Santa for each person he gave the cards to. Here are scans of two of them. I’ve asked him to email the text of the other quotes he came up with so I can add them to this post.
 Black Friday 2008: “I dunno, Jesus… I think supporting ‘Buy Nothing Day’ would be bad for the economy…” – JDK 2008
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 Black Friday 2008: “Do you think it’s time we ‘fessed up and told everybody we’re not real?” -JDK 2008
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