This is not the first time, but this was the first day I’ve been here that it’s snowed this year. It managed to stick too, so the outside is blanketed in white. This is entirely appropriate.

The year is pretty much over; tomorrow is for closing out things as best I can, and observing the start of the New Year. And as much as I might like, the balance books are going to be carrying over to 2007. This year was not easy – I’d go so far as to say it was tough. At the end of things my heart is bruised and so very tender. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.