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Feeling left out of the cold. Create a snowflake. Merry Christmas everyone! The snow melted yesterday after the minus temps let up two days ago. If you are jonesing for winter white, you can make your own snowflake here.

We’re at the G. Family and enjoying being swept up by all the festivities. Tomorrow is Oma’s traditional Cow tongue and I helped cut it up this year. Minus Lydia, the whole immediate fam will be together tomorrow and then we leave for Brussels.

I’ve spent most of my time working on family videos of the nephew Friedrich, previous weddings, and a video of our apartment for Oma. Trying to find a codec or video format that can be transfer to my cameras or playing a video per disc thru the DVD players has been one dizzy and frustrating mess. After a head full of dead end ideas, I gave up and ended up showing my work on the laptop. Not optimal for people not used to a computer screen, but what can you do when ancient electronic equipment (2 yro) and advanced video editing software don’t mix? I’m still baffled that I spent so much effort on this project and it didn’t result the way I planned.

But anyway. I’m now inducted to the group of watch carriers. Alex gave me two watches this year for Christmas. I’m sporting an everyday watch driven with quartz clockwork and for special occasions, I have a similar watch but with mechanical clockwork. Both are very beautiful and actually fit my small wrists.