Happily to one and all

[Thomas]

Usually do approximately the same, but with a dear couple we have known for years. This year, we can't get together, so wife and I are dining late at a spectacular small restaurant (Le Gigot) in Greenwich Village. Quiet dining, and we will finish early enough to get back into the apartment before the drunken fools start to fill the streets with their annual intestinal emptying.

I do hate this particular night more than any of the year.