Along with 2011, our Christmas vacation is also drawing to its end. Was a good time -- meat puppies being the new tradition, along with old favorites like loud music and incessant bickering (da chimpz take care of that end of things).

I did work down some of my reading list, but not much. Back-issues of magazines mostly. Forget the books; my attention span cannot handle the strain of... whatever.

But we did make time for some creative exploits. A colleague snagged me a groovy Taj Mahal on his recent trip to India, so my home crew had to have at it. I think the resulting image captures perfectly just how things would turn out if the Mastandreas ever trekked to a major tourist site.