S Novym godom!

Happy New Year from all of us here at Potpourri for $500. I hope the year ahead brings more good than bad your way.

Had blogging been available 24 years ago JJV and I could have liveblogged from the Astoria Hotel in then-Leningrad. OK, to be honest my liveblogging would have tailed off before midnight, but JJV would have kept the entries coming.

I look forward to seeing what my co-contributors can come up with in the coming year. For my part I hope a layout update is in the near future, as I have pulled the trigger on a couple of gift certificates for tools and scenery items. A man can dream...