>>>>Curmudgeon? Deurinated. Just let it go.
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>>>Fair enough. Christmas is not my favorite day of the year, either, and I guess I was in a grumpy mood yesterday. Sorry.
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>>>Did I say a day? Six weeks of Christmas is more like it.
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>>That's the nice part. Few more hours and it's over :).
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>Are you kidding? Yesterday's paper weighed a ton, filled with flyers about after-Christmas sales. some stores opening at 6 this morning for the blessed event. The Christmas lights, both in public places and on houses, won't even start coming down for another week.
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>"It's over?! It's over when we say it's over!" -- John Blutarsky

I sort of agree with you. At least I can finally go to the grocery without seeing all the colors except the ubiquitous gray and one tone of green and one tone of red censored out, and hearing the same five songs over the PA over and over, and without those paramilitary units ringing their bell at the door. For the rest, yep, they'll keep churning kilowatts for many more days. But the pressure is gone. I've been to the post office this morning, and it was all back to normal.