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Holiday Greetings, humans! If you haven’t yet succumbed to frostbite or trampling-by-shopper, I would like to [actually, I am] wish you and yours (family, friends, worldly and other-worldly possessions, etc) a Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah Super-Duper Kwanzaa happy holidays! As the sign says… if you’re not sure you can park here, then you probably can’t!

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No matter how much of a Grinch you are (shame on you!), you gotta crack a little smile when you see an elderly couple walking hand-in-hand in the snow.

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As luck wouldn’t have it, I had do some last minute shopping at the nuclear shelter/shopping mall known as Le Carrefour Laval ^[4] (one of the largest in Eastern Canada I believe). That isn’t camera blur; the entire mall was actually coated in a surreal, blurry fog. Or so it seemed from all the noise and lights. I’m told that alcohol can cause that effect as well.

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This was the view driving back from the mall; a cloud front being pushed away by clear skies. I really hope that it’s indicative of the times to come for 2005; I think most of us could use some clear skies.

:)