If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve opened your Christmas gifts already. So here’s a little lagniappe, if you will: a Merry Christmas article from the Aerie.
In addition, you probably found a couple extras in your feed reader this morning: Turns out my update to WordPress 2.9 was apparently not quite as trouble-free as I assumed. Somehow, an addon interefered with the ability of FeedBurner to grab my RSS feed, so the guest post from Krizzlybear as well as my own post on the 22nd were not updated in FeedBurner.
I was able to get a chance to do some troubleshooting Christmas Eve, and after disabling all addons (except Akismet and WordPerfect Stats), then pinging the site from FeedBurner, those articles appeared in my feed, and, I trust, in yours. So there you go: Two more gifts from the Aerie this Christmas Day!
We’re all having a wonderful time here on Kaua’i: Alie can’t get enough of the beach, but was persuaded to accompany the rest of us as we went in search of shave ice this afternoon. And while I was considerably under the weather Thursday morning as a cold snuck up on me, I was recovered enough by midafternoon to go as well (although I had ice cream instead of shave ice: I wasn’t too sure how well the syrups would do for my somewhat sore throat, and Kona coffee ice cream is not something to be passed up).
Christmas Dinner will be a luau at the Sheraton resort a couple miles away; we’re all looking forward to the wonderful buffet as well as the traditional dancing that will be presented.
Finally, as a further gift to all my wonderful friends and readers, here’s a video I took on Tuesday at a small blowhole across the street from our vacation house:
Same to you …
Looking forward to 2010
Merry Christmas