Having joined the ARVO meeting program committee, my December has been consumed by abstract reviews which between overbooked clinics, Kaiser referrals, and scribe absences, kept me plenty busy at work. Our department did well enough this year to bring back the holiday party, although the DJ was a fail. We also squeezed into the Glassberg-mobile to attend the Ob-Gyn chair’s gathering for a second year in a row, but ghosted the Kit Lam luncheon when it turned into a potluck. We kept our in-laws busy this month with childcare, and gave us time to try out Shoku Ramen Bar near work, and HK-styled Flame Cafe outside 99 Ranch. Both were solid. We also munched on an Insomnia ice-cream cookie-wich on the way to watching the Rise of Skywalker, which despite providing some fan service, was too sloppy a movie to provide the satisfying conclusion to the Star Wars saga that we had hoped for. Back home, I took advantage of holiday deals and leftover grant money to gather components to build a new PC for my home office. The new rig sports a Ryzen 7 3700x CPU with a Kraken X72 liquid cooler on an ROG Crosshair VIII Hero mobo with G.Skill Ripjaw memory, ROG Strix RTX 2070s graphics, and a 970 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD, all powered by a Focus PX-750 power supply and housed in a sleek, windowed H710 case. With this much horsepower, it’s a shame we don’t have a PC game to enjoy for the holidays. Instead, we fired up the PS4 with our new GOTY edition of Spiderman to get us swinging through the digital Big Apple to prepare for the NYE ball drop.