Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, too, all.

Perhaps last year's lesson was simply that things never stop. (They don't even slow down without introduction of external forces.)

So if I've been uncommunicative, be assured, all my other friends feel the same. and so it goes.

Feel free to drop a line, or pick up the phone, and I hope to beat you to it in 2006, for a change.

May God bless your endeavors, and everywhere may justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Peace be upon your house.