Sixteen Years Ago, This Very Day

 

Last Christmas, I gave you mixed nuts,
The very next day, you gave ’em away,
This year, I won’t be a putz,
I’ll give them to someone special.
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

— Sophocles

I’ve just had a time-capsule kind of experience, revisiting posts from December of the blog’s inaugural year, 2008. I admit that this morning it look me a long few seconds to parse out the doggerel in the Christmas Eve post.