This part of the year brings me usually to feel sad. Brings the evidence that my family is far from being a "family".
The good part is that it always makes me find great things, I refuge into the Net. Last year I discovered gopher.

I don't recall exactely how it went, but whole "Xmass" time I spent in the gopherhole.
It was so exciting.

This year is going to be different. I got invited to spend it with my companion's family.
At first I got really happy as it has been a long time now that I was missing this "family" feeling, but now it becomes kind of tough. It makes me more sentimental.
It touches something that for many years remained blocked under a heavy layer of ice.