Christmas cometh and the cards come out.

Yes, one of the elements of moving into adulthood is, or at least was, that one took upon oneself the sending of Christmas cards to important family and friends. I never did get my head around this. Christmastime was always too busy and cards took planning and making decisions and all sorts of stuff I couldn't manage to pack into the limited Christmas holiday. But this year we will attempt it belatedly.

I guess I'm cheating. I'm recording addresses in a spreadsheet and I'm going to do a mail merge to print labels. That way I don't have to sacrifice envelopes if something goes wrong. Computers have eaten my brain. I can't fathom hand-writing that many envelopes and cards. I can just type it! And I type pretty fast for the most part.

That and I've been doing so much work in Excel and Access lately at work that I'm started thinking in terms of data organization and data sorting. If I can't manage, sort, and organize the data I'm dealing with, what's the point of writing it down? Physical address books are so clunky! Useful, but clunky. I guess maybe after putting all this stuff into Excel I may have to find a way to import it into some other program that will let me do other stuff with it.

This is what happens to perfectly good minds (OK, so that's debatable) when technology strikes.