Dearest Readers/Commenters/Bashers/Friends/Foes,

Everyone here at the Metroblog wishes you a wonderful Christmas and a fantastic New Year.

It is my sincere wish that each of you is spending your holiday with family, whether they are blood relations or your chosen people. Go ahead, have that extra piece of pie!

As I write this from Eastern Oregon with the Timberline Yule Log playing on OPB I’m feeling festive, and I hope you are too. Now that it’s a bit too late to shop for Christmas proper, hopefully you can kick back, enjoy some wine (or whatever beverage it is that you prefer) and appreciate this bit of time at the end of the year just before you make and break those resolutions. (: