BF>> As I said, here it's up at least 5% every year.

 bk>  Sales may be up here, I am not sure profits are that much.

Haven't a clue about the profit.

 bk>>>  OTOH, I'm on vacation, until Tuesday...

 BF>> Come back in late Januari.......

 bk>  I went back to work today. Bad weather...

Thought you said you stayed in bed......

 BF>> We bring stuff home for next year......

 bk>  There is a store in Chicago, a surplus science type stuff store.
 bk>  Ii used to buy a lot of small gifts from them, when the kids
 bk>  were younger. Stocking stuffers. Not very expensive, but nice,
 bk>  and strange.

Stockings at x-mas....another thing that we don't have.

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