Mint hot-chocolate is proven to taste 218% better when ingested while snowing and wearing no pants.

This year has been an absolutely bonkers ride, with haunted, dry-lunged screams all while gripping onto the hand rail with the white-knuckled hope that someone somewhere might pull the brake-lever before the train went shrieking off the tracks into a factory occupied with orphans made of nitroglycerin while carrying boxes of nails and very fragile ornaments.

So this is my way of gently exiting the year, hugging the last bits of sanity, and hoping that the new year is gentler on everyone.

Be well, folks. And happy new years.