Asymptomatic

While Abby is a typical early-riser, and those genes don't come from Berta or me, neither of the kids have yet discovered the Christmas morning ritual of waking their parents at 5am with "Can we open our presents now?" Thankfully. No, I'm about to ruin my good fortune by saying we've been strangely lucky in our ability to sleep in until 9am or so before the kids stir. Still, there's a lot to do on Christmas day, and sometimes it seems more like work than a Holiday should bring.

We'll usually get up at say, 9am. I'm sure that as the kids get older, this will change and be earlier. We need to give a reasonable amount of time for Santa to place gifts under the tree, so we'll have to enforce some limit on the time before we can go downstairs.

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I'm writing this post from the Septa R5 into Philadelphia, on my way to Suburban Station and a day of work at a temporary office across the street from Liberty Place. That may be one breath of a sentence, but it's appropriate for the month I'm having.

Deadlines for work have gotten... interesting. And in the midst of it all, I have meetings with big clients for the rest of the week. Next week I give a presentation on PHP frameworks, specifically CodeIgniter, which is fun since I haven't used it since maybe June, coincidentally for the client that I'm meeting in the city today. At some point before this major deadline I need to take some time out to watch Riley, since Nana is going on vacation with mom.

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