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A few weeks ago, I registered Dan and myself for a Sunday-morning 5K Jingle Bell Run. A friend of mine has a family tradition of doing a Jingle Bell Run in Illinois every December, so I was familiar with how it goes: Everyone shows up in Christmas costumes, wears jingle bells, and generally has a good time while they race the short trail. I've never taken part in it myself but have wanted to, so this year, we decided a West Coast branch would be established. I registered without knowing that the weekend would be one of our busiest in...

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Some periods of the year seem to drag so slowly... off the top of my head, I'd say January, February, April, and June are some of the slow (seeming) months. On the other hand, why do November and December fly by like they barely exist? I am always on a quest to make things (projects, for instance) finite, with clear beginnings and ends, but it never seems to work that way in real life. One thing that has a clear beginning and end, though, is the calendar year... and so I am very much a proponent of new year resolutions...

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