prog | Merry merry

Off I go to W-ville once more, full of anticipation for several days of the heightened joy, boredom, contentment, frustration, and love that can only result from time with the fam. I'm not sure what schedule I'll follow... I suppose that I'll just follow my mood. I'll definitely be replanted back in Somerville soil by the 30th at the latest, whatever happens. Planning on a NYE party with Circle-D people and then a NYD party with Circle-J(s) people. Yay

Going to save all my written sentimentality for New Year musings. The short version is: 2002 was good to me, maybe the best of all my years so far, and I have solid evidence that 2003 will be even better.

Unexpected piece of holiday cheer arrived in my mailbox today: a royalty check from Perl & XML, which indicated that part of its total came from sales of the latest Perl CD Bookshelf, which our book is apparently part of. I didn't know that!! Cool.