Sleep in heavily peace

The building that houses NCPR had its annual Holiday Do today, just in time to save me from a styrobox of Chinese buffet. The theme was winter morale food: fifteen kinds of meat, including my favorite--meat with lard sauce--plus multiple varieties of cheese, differing strengths of chocolate, items from the butter and sugar food groups, stuffed eggs, and a few festive sprigs of vegetable matter--for decoration, one presumes. Many people are going greener, cheaper and simpler this holiday season, at least under the tree. But under the belt, it's still "Laissez les bon temps roulez!"

Ancient wisdom is at work--no, not the scriptures, we're still nasty as ever--but the animal appetites. Winter is coming; store some fat. Things are tough out there; double down with pasta. Who knows when pomegranate chocolate truffles will come round again. Take two? Don't mind if I do. It seems to me that I was heading somewhere pithy and profound with this post, but suddenly, I feel a little sleepy. All the best to you and (yawn) yours, this holiday season.