   Finally, it's arrived!
  The Christmas design for GDNet, my new domain (coldacid.net -- still nothing there, really), my order for Torque GE 1.5, and XNA Game Studio Express. The only way today could get any better is if my girlfriend shows up at my place tonight saying that she was preemptively passed on all her exams and can spend the whole week with me.This is certainly a great time of year, where everything gets exciting and calm and fun at the same time. Although it's still just warm enough here in southern Ontario to give us rain instead of snow, the latter is just around the corner, with all the glee of whipping snowballs at stuff just days away.What do you guys love about this time of year?   
  I like this time of year because it means I only have another week of school (final exams) and then I get a break for a couple weeks.  That, and XNA Game Studio Express v1.0 came out today.  Now if only the next week of final exams would blow by....I also like being home for the holidays.  It's nice to see my brothers and sister, and nieces.  That, and it gives me a chance to get fattened up before I head back to school in January.   ;  The cold, for one. Snow is wonderful, too.I'm done with exams and classes for a month. Wonderous.The peace and quiet around the apartment during winter break is more wonderful than I can describe.Conversely, I enjoy the mayhem while shopping during the holidays.Oh, and the GDNet theme [smile].   ;  What I like about this time of year:The increased sunshineLack of undergraduate students clogging up the university (postgrads and researchers get the uni to ourselves!)Christmas-New Year break: heading home for a week or two to generally chill out with my familyCan wear shorts and thongs (umm - flip-flops in US English?) outside without feeling like a dill or freezing your toes offWhat I don't like about this time of year:The heat - it wears me down after a whileThe fliesThe bushfiresChristmas shopping crowds, especially when combined with heat, flies and bushfires;  My Wii :3   ;  Snowboarding during working hours! YAY!   