Santa Tracker: 100 percent

We finally matched up some difficult schedules and exchanged the last of our Christmas gifts. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Santa Tracker: 88.7 percent

Shh! Don't tell the people who we're meeting after Christmas that we haven't got some of their presents yet.

But the rest of them are good to go! (And it's not even Christmas Eve!)

Santa Tracker: 71.4 percent

One of the benefits of living in a big city: the post office on Harrison Street is open until midnight.

Santa Tracker: 67.7 percent

Shopped locally, if by "locally" one means "by driving around the suburbs".

Santa Tracker: 45.3 percent

The final push has begun.

Santa Tracker: 6.2 percent

We didn't get much of our shopping for family and friends done yet, but we've purchased some gifts for the kids we sponsor overseas and, as an AgileTek company event, for some disadvantaged local families.

Getting gifts for local families in need was an idea that Tim, one of my partners at AgileTek, had. This year instead of buying gifts for all of our AgileTek team members we let our team members do the giving. Working through a local school we got information about a few dozen family members who were in need of gifts. Each of us was assigned three people and given a Visa shopping card and an assignment cards like this:

Then we took a half day off of work to do our shopping together.

Yes, that's me in a Santa t-shirt. I'm festive.

I'm dying to post a picture of one of the gifts I got for the 10-year-old, Jonas-Brothers-loving bass player, but there's a long-shot chance that she might see this post. I'll wait until after Christmas and post it.

Santa Tracker: 0.0 percent

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake

Introduced in 2007, it became a recurring feature in 2008. And now it's time, once again, for the Santa Tracker!