It doesn't feel like Christmas...

There are some folks who pack up the Christmas tree and all the trimmings on December 26th. Most others wait until January 2nd. The really hard-core wait until after January 7, which is when Christmas is celebrated in the Orthodox Church. The only problem, so to speak, with that approach in the United States is that by January 7, we've all but fully returned to what Harry Harrison once described as a steady diet of "bowb-your-buddy" weeks.

The cold weather has tracked us down here in Texas. The temperature fell below freezing a little while ago and is not expected to rise too far above freezing until sometime this weekend. We are not amused.

The work on tiling the bathrooms has completed its second day. The guys doing the work are putting a lot of care and elbow grease into the job, which I appreciate. The original configuration in the bathrooms - equal areas of linoleum (around where it gets wet) and carpeting (where it doesn't) - should have been changed long ago, but that's just the 20/20 hindsight talking.

I generated a new PGP key today, good for the rest of the year. The next step will be to send it to folks with whom I have non-disclosure agreements in place and diplomatically suggest that if they want to maintain the confidentiality of emailed information, they might think about encrypting said information before sending it out into "the cloud" for everyone and their pet poodle to read.

Small steps, that's the ticket!

Cheers...