Not a Yuletide letter

Have just crawled out from under a gigantic pile of work with a vague awareness Yuletide is going on, so, guess I'm not signing up this year. Hopefully things will free up a bit nearer the time and I'll still be able to write some fic, but I'm not going to risk committing to an assignment just in case. So, anyway, this has been your semi-regular "still alive and lurking" announcement.