A belated Happy New Year! I've been intentionally avoiding posting during the holiday week, with the exception of the posts on what Sanjiva has been up to in Sri Lanka. Julie has covered a lot of what we've been up to as a family. She and I burned up a massive number of hours on the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition. I've also been reading, listening to IT Conversations (I think my opinion of podcasting has improved), thinking, and sleeping. 2004 was a very busy year for us, and I wanted to have a week to kind of shake out my brain. A week isn't really long enough to do that, but it will have to do.