{"id":11538,"date":"2018-12-05T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11538"},"modified":"2018-12-05T20:28:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:28:15","slug":"yule-be-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11538","title":{"rendered":"Yule be sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Christmas
\nPhoto credit: Tj Holowaychuk@tjholowaychuk<\/em><\/p>\n

What a weird season this is turning out to be. I enjoy what I\u2019m doing for a living, but working part-time, from home, turns out to leave me less free time than I had when I was an upstanding cog in the system.<\/p>\n

I usually put up my Christmas tree right after Thanksgiving, and I start writing my Christmas letter around the same time. Now it\u2019s the 5th of December, and I\u2019ve done nothing! Nothing<\/em>!<\/p>\n

I have failed as a Norwegian. Christmas is one of the things we do. My ancestors are ashamed of me.<\/p>\n

But tonight I\u2019ve put in six hours already, and I have a little latitude on the deadline, and I\u2019ve made a personal commitment to starting the Christmas letter this evening.<\/p>\n

Heaven knows I have a lot to write about. Mostly about my new semi-career, the schedule for which is the reason the letter will be late.<\/p>\n

My Christmas letter is kind of an annual epic production. First I write it in English, then I translate it to Norwegian, for the recipients over there. Those letters have to go out first, because of postal transit time.<\/p>\n

And there was something else, wasn\u2019t there? \u2026 Oh yeah, the tree.<\/p>\n

Well, the actual old tradition was to decorate and light it on Christmas eve. I may end up being traditional this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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