Dec
25th
2020
Applied Technomancy · 7:27pm Dec 25th, 2020
Christmas is special to me. For the first half of my life or so, we'd go down to Florida to spend it with my mother's family. After her parents passed, those of us in the local area made sure to spend it with her, make some new traditions. This year presented some challenges, but Zoom rose to the occasion. It may not be magic, but Clarke's Third Law applies.
In any case, whatever you believe in, enjoy the season as best you can. 
Winter posset and dog stockings make it Christmas for me! May you have a joyous one!
That’s pretty close to my own experiences! After this I suspect a lot of people might end up concluding that it’s not bad as an experience, and in the future put into question whether they want all the hassle of travelling. Depending on your age:
- The blue pill is a perfectly good choice, or
- Solaria is not the problem, Detective Bailey.
"GLOMPS"
Merry Christmas, FOME!
Big and long lunch with granny at a safe-ish distance at the table. Lots of alcohol, and trying not to let my introvertedness become too much of a drain on things.
It was nice, but New Year's will be funner. Christmas has too many connotations for me, for example when it comes to taxonomy. Ramble below.
Thanks, America, for making everyone think a fuzzy-nosed tundra dweller looks like a smooth shiny-nosed California-issue mouse on hooves. Wasn't even a Christian that made it, weirdly enough; it's technically a Jewish icon, which has a lot of unfortunate implications nose-wise... I'm not one to take away other people's source of joy, I just find it baffling how influential a simulacrum can be, to the point people think the real thing is 'wrong.'
Beyond that, there's always the future stuff lingering around Christmas, more so than New Year's, I find. New Year's is more practical, actually writing down stuff. Christmas is when you try and fail to get sufficiently drunk to forget your woes. In my experience, at least. Family enjoyed it, granny was happy, that's all that matters.
Anyway, the BBC always has the best films around this time of year, and we get it even outside of Britain. Moana was a nice watch, Singin' in the Rain was nice background music to lunch.
Best wishes, and nuts to the downvoters
You know I'm right, a simple google image search suffices.
Merry Christmas to all of you!
Our family had also decided several weeks ago to not try to meet up over the holidays given the rapidly changing restrictions here in the UK, which most definitely turned out to be the right call. We had a lovely family Zoom call to open each other's presents, and apart from that took the opportunity to start our own Christmas traditions up here. And much fun was had.
Every blessing to you and yours.
Even if we can't be with family in person, whether because of the pandemic, a passing member, or distance, we can still hold them in our hearts as we enjoy our days. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Joyous Kwanzaa! Festive Festivus! Enjoyable Nonsectarian Winter Solstice Holiday! And may all your humbugs be bah!
That should cover just about everyone…
We could only have a couple people over this year, so the whole Christmas lunch business was toned down a little from previous years. Which is very much fine by my. One of my aunts having already lived through Covid made her the safest choice for who to invite (and also the only really available one). It was nice, overall.
Slightly late, but merry Christmas. :)
And thanks! You too. :)