I'm finally on Christmas vacation from work. It's Monday, but the weekend doesn't count since I went in to work for about 4 hours both weekend days to finish some validations on machines that it's hard to get time on during the work week. Yesterday was also the children's Christmas program at church. I help out with directing. This year we did a neat show where some kids acted out the Christmas story in pantomime behind a curtain, so all the audience could see was the shadows, while another person narrated. It went really well except for the 9-foot tall wise man we had because one of the kids forgot to stand close to the curtain. We had movie night early this week, Friday night, so we could watch "LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring" on video before all going out to watch "LOTR: The Two Towers" Saturday afternoon. I was really impressed with 2T; I think it may have been better than Fellowship.