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Since the end of the 2007 F1 season I’ve been wanting to take a look back at the predictions I made in March and see just how far off the mark I was. Yeah, I know the season ended over two months ago. I’ve been kind of busy. Any way, since 2007 is over in about 4 hours, I figure I had better get to it.

So, starting at the bottom of the WCC standings we have

McLaren Mercedes - 0 points

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Alright, enough is enough. I expect spam. I expect odd spam. I even expect lots of odd spam. But enough with the tramadol for dogs links.

Seriously. Tramadol for dogs. Hundreds of them each day. Day after day.

I don’t think I get a lot of dogs reading this. Maybe I do. After all, on the Internet no one knows you’re a dog and Google Reader is pretty easy to use. Even if I do have a large canine readership, I somehow doubt that a high percentage of them are canine junkies and/or have a credit card to order more smack. Even if they did, how much of that stuff could the average junkie dog go through?

It seems like I learn something new every year around the holidays. This year was no exception. In fact, I learned quite a bit this year.

• There are precisely 22 trips involved in dragging out my Christmas decorations.
• There are 22 trips involved in putting them away.
• Lights that were carefully wrapped up and stored in January will come out of the box in knots.
• They won’t work.
• While trying to make them work, it is possible to put the wrong light in the socket.
• When the strand starts working, that light will glow with the intensity of a small nova.
• A small nova produces enough heat to burn a hole in the carpet.
• Melting carpet will activate the smoke detector.
• Hours spent decorating the tree to perfection can be undone by a single cat in under 5 minutes.
• The dog does not destroy the tree.
• Dogs > cats.
• 10 inches of snow followed by 60 degrees and rain makes the ground soggy.
• Soggy ground and high winds are not conducive to keeping yard decorations.
• The neighbors don’t seem to mind stray inflatable decorations in their yard.
• Dragging decorations back across the street in 40 mph winds sucks.
• It is possible to maintain an itinerary that involves over 1000 miles and 16 stops with 100% accuracy.
• It involves very little sleep.
• And even less beer.
• And lots of gas.
• Gas is expensive.
• No one at the last stop minds if you fall asleep on the couch.
• Sleep is good.
• Being the permanently designated driver is not fun.
• Watching 2 brothers who haven’t seen each other in a year and a half reunited on Christmas morning makes the rest of this crap seem pretty pointless.