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the work year grinds to a halt on a good note

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2013.12.24

On this, the last business day of the year, we got some very good news on a project I've been working on since February: a whopping refund from the Canadian Revenue Agency. Woohoo!

I'm starting to hear that a few employers in the city are just closing up shop for the Christmas/New Year's period. I think it's a fine idea. Data processing needs aside, I'd like to see it take root throughout the industry.

rand()m quote

The point isn't revenge. It is justice. Revenge is like a wave that washes up on shore - it always washes back out again. Justice is like the shore - it's still there after the wave comes and goes.

—commenter "JP" on a Rolling Stone article about the crooks running Wall Street