boah, the most annoying time of the year is done again... this year i evaded christmas as good as possible by doing loads of work for my company and the university. by avoiding to turn on the radio and the tv you can circumvent almost 70% of the fuss. the remaining 30% are stuff on hoardings, in the paper and on the internet. but well, it is finally done, so 'nuff ranting. ok, besides all the commercial crap, xmess is all about one thing: presents! yahooo... this year i really got a great one from my brother - a painting. this really fine piece of art was done in acryl on canvas. it's entitled "trace". at first i didn't really get it. take a look yourself here, maybe you'll find out... _spoiler-begin_: on the next lines you get the solution... yeah... on the left you have a footprint, on the right a trail from bottom to the top. you have some red and some lurid green spots all over the picture. the green spots enclose some bubbles. ok, if you know i'm an alien fan, it should now be pretty obvious what this all is about. the footprint was done by an alien, the trail is from its tail. the red spots are blood (guess my brother thinks aliens are always on a killing spree?) and the green stuff is slime. i love this one! _spoiler-end_ but not only receiving presents is great fun (mostly), also giving presents is a pleasure sometimes. especially if it's a trip to prague on New Year's Eve with a girl you really are in love with. yeah, right - zombiequeen and i will go to prague from 30th of december 2005 to the 3rd of january 2006. i'm sure this will be a great stay! pix will definitely be included in the next bLog-entry. meanwhile... happy new year, dudez'n'dudellaz...