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**Christmas, Cool Table, Caroling & Cocktails**

Last night's Christmas party was ... epic. Awesome. Fun. A little nutty at times.

Not that there's anything surprising about that.

Neub had the rather inspired idea of doing a formal progressive dinner, and as it happens, there are three of us who happen to live within two miles of each other. Starting around six last night, nineteen rather well-dressed people gathered at Neub's house for appetizers and cocktails. After a couple hours there, we migrated to the Admiral's house for an incredibly nice sit-down meal of beef tenderloin (stuffed with garlic and marinated in wine), wild rice with almonds and Craisins, honey wheat bread, roasted vegetables, glazed carrots, and a spinach salad with pasta.

If anyone left hungry, it was their own fault.

From there we headed north to my house for dessert, drinks, and one very large game of Pictionary.

The last few people left around 2:30 this morning. I cleaned for a whopping fifteen minutes before accepting reality and crashing.

Cool Table -- I think I can say that this was one of our better shindigs. Even though I'm going to be finding random pieces of party poppers (and dolphin keychains) for the next three months.

I'm going to get back to my gift wrapping now. Have a good night, everybody!

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