Exhibit A: G'Claus lit a fire under me when he delivered a parcel from Australia
a good week ago. I've been remiss in reporting, and extend my apologies to
Stuart, who's probably been waiting for some word. It arrived safe and sound. I
slit it open to, um, make sure everything was OK without peeking, and a tiny
koala bear clutching a boomerang leapt out to tell me to cut it out. I'm not
making this up.

Exhibit B: Despite my run-in with the koala, I didn't immediately get cracking
on getting a package out, headed about as far from MD in the CONUS as you can go
without running out of continent. Only today did Mr. G'Claus take the package
off my hands, giving me an icy glare for making him work hard this close to
Christmas.

Now to sit back and wait for last-minute confirmation that G.C. kept his word on
a pre-Christmas delivery, and to find out what that koala was talking about.

-T

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