It's over a month after Christmas now, so it's fitting for this blog (is it really a blog with a post every 3 months?) that I FINALLY am getting the annual Hanke Christmas Letter for 2011 up here. For those unfamilar with the procedure, back in the old days (ie, college) I used to send out Christmas cards with a ridiculously long letter to all my friends and family every year. When I got married, we realized that doubling the number of cards to send out was not really an option, so we cut the list down to basically just family with one or two good friends. However, I've tried to find a good electronic outlet for this every year, since I know EVERYONE is just DYING to read my Christmas letter. Or something like that.
Well, even though I haven't actually used this blog for much, I finally have a perfect forum for putting out the Hanke Christmas letter electronically. I originally finished the letter about a week before Christmas, but never got around to putting it up here until now. An added bonus of the electronic version is that I can add some pictures to help tell the story.
So, since the letter is approximately 10,000 words long on it's own, let's just get started. Merry (belated) Christmas!
