Counting down

[sawyl]

Massively busy and very tired, I'm counting the hours until the start Christmas. After a frantic few days of activity, I'm happy to be able to report that I've successfully done all the things I absolutely positively had to do before going away; I've completed most of the things I really ought to do; and I've completed a decent number of discretionary activities. I haven't completed the huge pile of stuff I started doing yesterday, but I've done enough of it to soften the landing on my return in January...