Thank you for the holiday wishes Mark McLellan, Dean of Research for the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

If you have a holiday card you’d like to share then send it on.

Judging from the slowdown in my email inbox, business activity has also started the holiday slowdown. A lot of companies take the next week or two off. I think that’s a good idea.

It’s a nice time to re-charge your batteries and as one of my former employers always had us do, throw away all the unnecessary stuff you collected in your files and office during the year. It’s amazing how much you collect and think you have to keep “just in case.”