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Katharine gave me a “Star Wars” apron for Christmas 2010. Here we have four characters lounging after a day spent cookin’.

Darkness and fog, two great tastes that taste great together.

Preparing the glaze for the rum cake. A 4:2:1 sugar/rum/water mix with a butter chaser.

Obviously this is gonna taste terrible!

Boozing up the rum cake.

Holiday baking in full force!

Catching the 522 near my house.

Katharine had a little lip-balm misfire....

Back to work today for the first time since November 23. Since that day I’ve spent 8 days in the Caribbean (ah, sun/sand/water....) and took a day off for my 40th birthday yesterday.

And now SLAM back to the regular routine. Amazing how quickly the old patterns return:

1. Alarm at 05:30, didn’t even twitch.
2. Out the door by 06:00 to the park & ride.
3. On the bus, 30-minute ride to the office.
4. Yay badge still works!
5. Computer set up, time to start Outlook chewing on email updates.

All this and it’s only 07:15. I’ll spend most of today and possibly part of tomorrow filtering through vast volumes of email and other messages and catching up on what happened while I was out.

On the plus side, I’ve a short work week. So the crazy can only last four days.

How’s your Tuesday?