Until Next (Well End Of This One) Year Christmas

  We just packed up all the Christmas decorations, it being roughly the right time to do it being close to the end of the twelve days of Christmas. The only evidence now are the icicle lights outside (which are still there due to it being extremely cold and frosty this morning), the extra loot around the house and the big pile of chocolates and sweets still to be consumed. Given our slow rate of eating the sweets to keep calorie counts down they are going to be around for most of this month I suspect. Not a bad thing to be honest but wow we did quite well stuff wise this year.

  We definitely need to come up with a way to get away to somewhere we can do snorkeling again soon now I have my special goggles with a camera in them. Hopefully when I use that the pictures and films I take will be a bit better framed and stable. It just gives us the perfect excuse to go somewhere really nice again and get better pictures.

  I did actually "work" last week but it was so quiet with half the people out that most days I got what I needed to do in a couple of hours and then just stayed online in case anybody needed to ask me any questions. The real hard work won't start until next week and in to the new year as we ramp up with the next release (and the other small release we are going to sneak in before that one). It has made relaxing over Christmas and New Year easier since I didn't have to use up too much of my time off to do it all.

  As for game playing, I have done my usual playing a fair bit over my time off along with the usual film and tv watching my wife and I do when we get new stuff. I even managed to get another platinum trophy out of the new smaller Ratchet and Clank game that was a load of fun so that makes 21 now. With the Lego Marvel game I'm also playing that will make 22 once I finish that one although that seems to have a lot in it like some of the more recent Lego games.

  All in all another very good Christmas, nobody bothered us, it was nice and quiet and we got all the good food, loot and relaxing time that we deserve. Even the cats enjoyed their presents as well. Roll on the next one (only 355 days approx to go).