To all those who believe Christ the Savior was born today, Merry Christmas! To those who do not, Happy Monday!

With all of the hustle, bustle and unnecessary anxiety over the holidays, it’s always nice to see a sign that makes you stop in your tracks, pause for a bit and get a positive emotion from it. For myself, one of them (yes, I have been blessed to have had a few) was on the flight back from the Microsoft Azure and AI Conference I attended a few years ago. On the flight down I turned off the seat-back entertainment screen so I could read an actual paper book, but on the way back I decided to peruse the options from Delta Air Lines a bit when what to my wondering eyes did appear.

That was when I had the moment, which I captured in the picture accompanying this post. It’s a yule log video. It brought back memories of watching the yule log burning on WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City as a kid. For some reason the cable system in my town in western Massachusetts got the New York City independent TV stations, WPIX being one of them. Every Christmas 11 Alive, the as the station’s tag line was at the time, would air the yule log, ideally to give the Christmas spirit of a roaring fire for people living in apartments in the Big Apple. It was nice for us to watch as our chimney was capped and thus our fireplace wasn’t a working one. Of course I wondered how Santa got into the house, but I digress. It’s nostalgic to watch this video these many years later, especially as when I started watching it, we had a black and white TV. I have linked to the yule log video here and have embedded it below.

From my home to yours, wherever you may be, have a wonderful holiday season!

This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.

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