Welcome to #checkin for Thursday, December 18, 2025!
Good evening/afternoon/morning, everyone, and welcome to today's #checkin. T-1 days left to work this year. Tomorrow is finally my last day of work this year. Then finally holidays. Some other colleagues already have holidays, so there will be a handful of people working tomorrow in the office. Despite that, I met with a couple of people at the Christmas market, and we drank some mulled wine together. It was a nice evening. Today is. "I love Honey Day," which is fitting, as last weekend I was at the Christmas market in Frankfurt and bought honey, mead, and beeswax candles from a regional beekeeper. Of course, you can also buy some regional specialties or cookies, even some special dog treats!
Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, are there any traditions you do around this year? Baking cookies? Meetting friends? Writing cards?
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Joyce Donahue
in reply to Christoph S • • •Not really sure this year. My usual traditions revolved around singing at the big liturgies at church and going to visit my younger son and granddaughter. My older son usually Hhas stayed over a night or two before going back to his base in Omaha. All up in the air at the moment.
Holiday decorating this year is the few things I could reach to get out. A small ceramic lit Christmas tree, a wreath and some seasonal decorative pottery. For me that's pretty slim but without the ability to reach high shelves or lift heavy items It's not happening.
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in reply to Christoph S • • •Oh, I should get a couple for New Years Board Game Night. 🙂
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in reply to Christoph S • • •Today was...
(sigh) It was one of those "Measure Twice, Cut Once" and still manage to ef it up days. At least I got a shelf installed on the porch next to the wood railing a feral cat sleeps on at night. It's so pitiful, he falls off sometimes.
I'm building a cat house to hang on a cleat about a foot above the shelf with a landing for him to rest on. I had planned for it to be a ~14" square, but realized that I have to contend with the screen door out swing.
Whoopsie.
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((( David "Kahomono" Frier )))
in reply to Christoph S • • •The daughter and duaghter-in-law will be here for Dec 31 - Jan 3 so we get to do Christmas twice.
After we spent way too much time looking everywhere reasonable for a tube of graphite to lube a lock, my wife (at the time) found it... in the kids' room, on a bookshelf. Whereupon she declared,
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in reply to Christoph S • • •Dad fixed the counter with a tall backsplash.
He cut a step in the bottom of the backsplash to take up the space between the counter top and the wall. and bring the back splash down to the desired height. Problem solved.
When he was finished he said:
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Carsten Raddatz
in reply to Christoph S • •Re writing Christmas cards, well I have received quite a few cards, thank you all! I'm the first to admit I did not write any at all this year. Don't hold your breath. Also we'll have friends over from the farthest away place possible, and instead of 20C and up they"ll be in for freezing point temps here.
While today was the last day before some days of holiday, I'll have an official handover 'between the years' as we say, and too many hours of following the 39C3 proceedings over the internet trucks.
I'll buy things to eat over the next few days. No frenzy here unless you wait for Dec 24. Mornings are usually fine if you make it before others had their delay-start-the-day 2nd cup of coffee.
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stefani banerian
in reply to Christoph S • • •no particular traditions.
stay dry. stay warm. eat hot food. more hot cocoa (maybe with eggnog, maybe with something else).
read a book (just finished Graeber and Wengrow "The Dawn of Everything")
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