Have we lost Dabbsy this week

@1980s_coder

I don't "celebrate" Solstice in the sense of "too much fat, sugar and alcohol over several days", but rather just noting that the old year is over and the new year has begun. Seems even the calender can't get it right[0].

And truth be told, I've been mucking out stalls all day, every day, as I do every year for two weeks about this time. My gift to the field hands is sending them (and their girlfriends) on a visit to their family in the Yucatan for two weeks over Xmas & so-called "new years". Most of the nieces & nephews get a week or so of hard labo(u)r over "the holidays", and I usually manage to put their parents to work, too ;-)

Oh, and that's "jake", not "Jake". "Jake" is a completely different poster here on ElReg. I thought you were a "1980s coder"? Shirley[1] you, of all folks, would grok the difference?

[0] Say and/or believe whatever you want, but human-invented time/date systems are ignored by every other species on earth. They ALL follow the actual solar year.

[1] I'll try to stop calling you "Shirley" ...