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It's Christmas day, and all is foggy and peaceful.

The crabs were excellent yesterday, as were the Tokay pinot gris and the dill schnaps. And our Christmas lunch was very good as well; a mini-julbord, with gravad lax, janssons, rödkål, äggröra, and köttbullar for Kajsa. We left the sill untouched for now...

Tonight there will be chapon, aux marrons et potiron, and tomorrow we are invited to Laila and Michael to annandags julbord.

So maybe this blog is about food and drink after all. Because all seems quiet in the Computer Center as well. So far, the operators have sent a few mails about filesystems errors and the like on Castor diskservers (which Eric Bonfillou should be handling), but that's it. No Castor LSF meltdowns, no Maarten Litmaath P.I., no user questions, no nothing.

Back to the glögg and the lusekatten.

Small update: the chapon was excellent, although next time we will use sugar to caramelize the marrons. We drank a Vornay 'les Caillerets' premier cru, 1995, Jean Boillot & Fils, one of the bottles from Wim, Olivier, Africa and Francois.