Also tired and cold; finally found work and am doing construction about 60 hours a week. I actually got lucky last week: All but the first two days off with pay because the ground was too hard for the steam shovels to penetrate, and a night of running heaters on it proved inadequate, so they told us to just come back Monday. Since the temperature was ~0° FAHRENHEIT most of the week (I think it was colder Wednesday) that suited me fine. So, life is better with an income, but I hear ya on the tired; I am worn OUT. Like you say though, Christmas is coming soon and we will be off for a week and a half. Sleep; yummy, yummy sleep....

Things are otherwise good (except the Texans got trounced last night, but I will yell at someone else about that later ) and I hope the same is true for you.