Happy Holidays... food, skiing, and monkies

I'd like to extend happy holiday wishes to everyone out there...  We ate a bunch of really good food including our 7 fish dinner on Christmas eve... I think actually we made it through 6 fish and had to give up on the 7th.  Oysters on the halfshell, shrimp cocktail, littleneck clams, smoked salmon, spicy mussels with chorizo, tuna tartare and scallop curry all made it in, but the final course, including asparagus, garlic mashers, and breaded orange roughy had to wait till 2 nights later because we all got stuffed.  Lisa made a ginerbread cheesecake and a pumpkin cake.  She put in a lot of work on these cakes, missing a day of skiing on Sunday.  She was kind of annoyed when our lovely cat jumped off the microwave landing in the pumpkin cake.   Good thing we didn't have kitty tartare after that little debacle.  I did some voice over work for my french buddies who used to run Live Mix Radio and now are members of the tecno sensation AlienHearts.  They made a TV show in Second Life, the online social networking game.  I decided to download the program and give it a shot.  3 days and 2 all nighters later I can say I have barely scratched the surface... good stuff it seems.