There's a pine cone on my tree

Bought the last of my Christmas presents today. I was going to wrap them tonight, but I discovered that Tony used up all the Scotch tape this afternoon and didn't replace the roll. Now I have to try to find some more. I was going to cave in and get him a present, but I haven't decided yet. I wanted to get him a new violin, but the one I like is $7,000, and that's not in the budget this year what with the move to Washington next week. He's making the argument for "Christmas is a secular holiday these days" just to get presents, and I find that argument (not just from him, but everybody else, too) to be rather offensive. Why don't the non-Christians secularize Hannukah? Then they could have eight days' worth of presents!