I came back to work this morning and went through my morning routine- read my e-mail, checked my voice mail, opened up all the usual ssh connections to servers, and checked my site stats.

I was surprised to find hits on Christmas. I got hits on Christmas Day?!? Apart from the one guy from Singapore who found this place through a Google image search looking for an Uncle Sam hat, they were all deliberate hits; no referring URLs.

I don’t know whether to feel warm fuzzies because some folks actually took time out of their holiday to check for updates, or pity because, well, jeez, certainly nobody’s life could be so empty that they’d visit this site on Christmas, right? I mean, unless they’re all Buddhists, Jews, Satanists (hi, Chad!) or Witnesses or something. Heck, I’m as much of an Internet junkie as anybody, but even I didn’t touch a computer on Christmas.

But anyway. I hope your Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa/Solstice/secular winter observance was a good one. Mine certainly was, though my perception of holiday success is, as is often the case, heavily dependent on the food I cook and the reception thereof. Happily, the prime rib and madeira sauce (the latter’s recipe wheedled out of a former colleague) were a smashing success on Christmas Eve, so I could have gotten a box of broken muffler bearings for Christmas and still been content.

And now, back to the grind.