Enduring the letdown of being back at work after a wonderful but exhausting weekend.  Loving the new camera, even if the learning curve is the equivalent of jumping from Windows 3.1 straight to Vista.  Silly me, I thought that staying in the same product line would make things simple.  Simpler perhaps, but not simple.  Went to a great concert Sunday and in addition to the Christmas holiday music got the ego rush of seeing some of my photographs in print (for their program) and getting a special mention for the project.  I appreciate the shout-out, but I’m glad I was behind the camera, and very glad I wasn’t one of the singers wearing a Santa hat and a tux around Balboa Park during September’s heat wave.  But the goodness is over. 

Today’s all about being the Grinch.  By necessity it’s a Business of Law™ Monday.  Apparently asking past-due clients to pay their bills during the Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas-Valentine’s season is un-American.  It’s the moral equivalent of knocking down the Salvation Army Santa and running away with both the bell and the pot.  Screw ‘em.  Chuckie’s got gifts of his own to buy.