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The end of the year is coming. Are we closing the door on 2016 or opening new ones for 2017.
The holiday letters got shipped out last week (both editions), and we've already gotten some reports reception at domestic addresses. International destinations this year included: Australia, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland.
Mum and Don arrive tomorrow. That is good. They are low stress visitors. I can't take any time off because of the Aussie trip in February, but we get Boxing Day off this year since Christmas is on a weekend day. In a more civilized country we'd get both off! Or neither. I don't really care.
Mum and Don are back to Sydney after Boxing Day to see the New Year fireworks off the bridge, and we are up to New Jersey to see in the new year Lena's family. That is also good, but a wee bit more stressful. There is no telling this stage exactly where we will be celebrating.
Last night we went to see Rogue One in the Rockville theatre with the big seats. It was surprisingly well attended for a Monday night. We would have gone Sunday, except none of the shows before 9pm had any good seats remaining by the time I started looking. I liked the way they used the old school Star Wars tech. The ending of the film looks totally seamless with the start of A New Hope. It was also nice to see a live action Star Wars that wasn't drenched in pseudo philosophical Jedi mumbo jumbo. I think Star Wars has improved a lot since Lucas stopped being involved.
