On this, the most penultimate day of the year, we wandered down to Davis Square today to send off a care package to Iraq; vitamins, PowerBars, and Cheetos, all of which are (apparently) sorely coveted in the Tigris-Euphrates valley. I think that this is going to become a monthly tradition.

On the way home I picked up a few techno/drum & bass compilations (excellent programming music) from the used records shop and a copy of Anglo-Saxon England by Sir Frank Stenton from the far too perilous antiquarian book store. I had intended to get an almanac, but so full of glee was I at the discovery of such a delightful looking footnoted book chock-full of Angles and Saxons it slipped my mind.

I called a programming break for today, so a good deal of the day was spent in tinkering of the musical nature.