Here's hoping everyone who did the whole holiday thing this week had a good time and got home safely. One of our family gatherings was postponed until after the new year for weather, but the other was a fine old time, and the Smurfs loved their Rock Band; we even played together a bit, though of course youngsters that they are, I'm sure by the next time I see them they will be playing circles around me.

R.I.P.: Singer, actress Eartha Kitt dies at 81.

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