I have had trouble figuring out what Christian's call today. Tomorrow is Christmas day and tonight is Christmas Eve. So today can't be Christmas day. I have been calling today the day before Christmas but it doesn't sound very exciting. As a jew dating a Christian I have the benefit of having two separate gift deadlines. One for my family at Chanukah, which was a week ago, and the other at Christmas. Today is the gift deadline for getting Sarah's family gifts. They are fairly easy to shop for because they provide lists of things that they want for each other.

I had this great plan to make a massive photomosaic of Sarah for her parents but it has been scaled back significantly to making an 8X10 photomosaic due to the demanding deadlines ahead of me for this afternoon. Nobody can print anything bigger than that without sending the job out to Utah or somewhere odd like that. Sarah has been quite ancy to go outside while I am perfectly happy to futz with the software and play with different versions of the same mosaic for hours on end. The software hasn't been very cooperative with me. The one component that scales the picture from low-res to high res keeps crapping out on me. I think it takes it an hour to complete its job but I don't have the patience for it.

We went to the Eureka store and picked-up a puzzle for locking a bottle of wine. At the store, which is also VideoSmith I was told that I have a doppleganger in the newly released DVD Stander. I'll have to rent it to see since IMDB didn't have photos of the actors. I put the wine bottle in the puzzle and then realized it was too small but it took me twenty minutes to figure out how to undo the puzzle even with the instructions before I got a bigger wine bottle and shortened the rope.