I posted this image for several reasons. First, I am up to "H" in posting designs on Zazzle for t-shirts, tote bags and playing cards. I posted this one first:
And anyone with a good Jesuit education will tell you that you can't have Heaven without hell. So therefore the Hog Hell.
But I also posted the Hog Hell design because I received yet another Holiday Newsletter from someone I used to consider a friend but now I more or less am just annoyed by him. Unlike the former friend who sent use the holiday newsletter chock full of bragging about places they can afford to travel to in retirement because they never bothered to have children, this former friend had children but sends out a newsletter bragging about how much his children are overachievers and get great grades, play 14 instruments, began reading when they were in the womb and speak 48 languages. The annoying thing about this newsletter is that it doesn't even come with a holiday card. It is simply a laser printed series of photos of him and his overachieving daughters on one side and the mind-numbing newsletter on the other side. He is too cheap to spend money on a holiday card. And to make it even more irritating, he added a QR code that you could scan and be transported to videos of his overachieving daughters performing in award winning concerts.
I told my wife I am going to create a newsletter that includes a QR code where people can watch a video of my latest colonoscopy. I think it would be just as welcome as watching videos of this guy's kids performing.
The thing is, I haven't even talked to this guy in several years. He doesn't really stay in touch. He isn't on Facebook so we can share quality updates on a regular basis. And he obviously doesn't give a shit what I or my family are up to yet he thinks I care enough about where he and his wife have traveled and what awards his daughter have won.
I love the holidays.
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