It doesn't really matter

Realized that if I hadn't been laid off, I'd be spending all this month in extremely stressful exchanges with the server guys at work explaining how I can't fix the log4js thing, they have to do it, and getting nowhere. So I guess that's a relief at least?

If you like reading about the story comics I explain What's Going On In The Phantom (weekdays)? Why should we read this imaginary story? in the September-to-December plot recap.

So I have done a little walking around the neighborhood again. Not as rigorously as I did in 2020, but still, people are decorating. Not as lavishly as they did in 2020 either, but still, something.

Our own lights, partially lit. We have two timed outlets, one that's set to specific hours and one that's set to how much light there is, so here's a picture at a moment when those aren't both on.

Inflatable Santa passed out face down in his egg and chips.

A little Christmas tree set up to hang outside the window, which is pretty cute.

Pumpkins! Our house was not the only one to have left Halloween or at least Thanksgiving-appropriate decorations out while putting up Christmas.

Here's yet another house with multiple holidays going at once.

A tree and some other decorations set up on the front porch, the one thing really missing from our house.

Trivia: Only Latin copies of al-Khwarimi's 825 book Algorimi de numero Indium are known to survive, so we do not know that his introduction of ``Arabic'' numerals to western civilization used something like our ``Arabic'' numerals.
Source: The Calendar: The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock with the Heavens --- And What Happened to the Missing Ten Days, David Ewing Duncan. (It seems likely, though; contemporary Indian manuscripts used numerals that were, for the most part, those of today.)

Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Surprise Supplement: More Sundays from 1938, Elzie Segar, Tom Sims, Doc Winner. Editor Stephanie Noelle. Miscellaneous little bits, with no real stories. It does have a brief running bit where Wimpy gets a ventriloquy figure, though, which you'd think they would do more with.