>>but I'm going to wait until after Christmas so I can spend it with some family here on the mainland - missed the last 8 of them with them lol
Definitely a good time to be with family, even for those who don't believe! Of course Christmas day is Summer down under so it's barbies and flip flops.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
