Balancing Acts

I'm eagerly working on getting the diecast models store pages ready for sales. But I'm also trying to get some gift parcels ready for my siblings, and I'm begnning to resign myself to the fact that I may have to sacrifice a number of business hours to get my Christmas letter out.

I got a good draft done up on Sunday night, and considered that it might be good enough. But then I look for my list of people for whom I'll have to print out a copy and mail it by Canada Post. I printed out one as a test, and found that the colours are rather faint. So yesterday I ordered a set of 4 toner cartridges. But they won't be here until next Thursday. So I better send out the email edition - except that now I've thought of something else to add to the letter. Ouch!

Ah, but some good news too. I've recently received some gifts of cash! Which is why I didn't hesitate yesterday to order the toner. Then I thought of my useless camera (and I do like the convenience of a digital camera), so I found one on Amazon.ca (you have to look under kids' cameras now to find the lowest prices).

I'm also on a hunt for a turkey - but I've been warned that they are going to be rather rare this Christmas, so I'll be shopping for one of those this week, and I need to start inviting my single friends who have no family to go home to.

Last year we were 8 of us around my Christmas table. I wonder what it might be this time... :)

I should really be at an annual SBI Christmas Gala via Zoom right now, but I'll finish this issue first.

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Cousin Ken's PUNOGRAPHY

(Just a sampling... too many!)

· I tried to catch some fog. I mist.

· When chemists die, they barium.

· Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.

· I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time.

· How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.

· I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.

· I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I can't put it down.

· I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.

· They told me I had type A blood, but it was a type-O.

· I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.

· A cross-eyed teacher lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils.

· What does a clock do when it's hungry? It goes back four seconds.

· Broken pencils are pointless.

· What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.

· England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.

· I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.

· I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.

· I took the job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.

· Velcro - what a rip off!

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