Hey Ellexa: good news! The law firm of Cookie, Mojo & Associates has agreed to take your case. Santa Claus will rue the day he ever began this dispute!

Litigating this one promises to be tricky. Aside from serious questions of personal jurisdiction, choice-of-law, and arctic venue there remains that critical logistic challenge: serving process on a guy who zips around on a magic sleigh pulled by flying reindeer. It's hard to write a guy like that a speeding ticket much less put a summons in his fat mitt. Nonetheless, the boys are very excited to be taking a case this far in advance of their sitting for the bar... Mojo already has his opening and closing arguments written -- lots of references to "tattoos on his arms and knees" and how he "wanted candy!"

The eight-foot inflatable Grinch now stands sentry alongside our front door. Pine garland crawls up our (still unlit) lawn light. No more decorating: we're done. I will try to get a photo as it gets dark today -- which may be tough since there's rain in the forecast.