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BELINDA: Get your wife anything good for Christmas, Bob?
BOB: Not yet! Our family doesn’t celebrate it for another THREE MONTHS.
BELINDA: Oh, you on the, uh, the METRIC calendar or something?
BOB: Nah, it’s just…the CATTLE CALL is TOO MUCH. STORES are packed, MAIL takes forever, TRAVEL’S like twice the price…

BOB: And the actual DATE of Christmas is arbitrary anyhow. So we just bumped our celebration from the December solstice up to the March equinox.
We still take time as a family to exchange gifts and commemorate the birth of Christ, but we do it FREE of media nonsense and logistical hassle.

BELINDA: HUH. And GLORIA’S on BOARD with this?
BOB: Well…I sorta forgot to TELL her about it?
Let us just say that yesterday was “AWKWARD.”

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#475; In which Trouble is both avoided, and provoked transcribed by in

BELINDA: Get your wife anything good for Christmas, Bob?
BOB: Not yet! Our family doesn’t celebrate it for another THREE MONTHS.
BELINDA: Oh, you on the, uh, the METRIC calendar or something?
BOB: Nah, it’s just…the CATTLE CALL is TOO MUCH. STORES are packed, MAIL takes forever, TRAVEL’S like twice the price…

BOB: And the actual DATE of Christmas is arbitrary anyhow. So we just bumped our celebration from the December solstice up to the March equinox.
We still take time as a family to exchange gifts and commemorate the birth of Christ, but we do it FREE of media nonsense and logistical hassle.

BELINDA: HUH. And GLORIA’S on BOARD with this?
BOB: Well…I sorta forgot to TELL her about it?
Let us just say that yesterday was “AWKWARD.”

{{Header: make a tradition of WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: She will NOT be putting the snowman decorations back in the yard for Marchmas.}}

#475; In which Trouble is both avoided, and provoked transcribed by in

BELINDA: Get your wife anything good for Christmas, Bob?
BOB: Not yet! Our family doesn't celebrate it for another THREE MONTHS.
BELINDA: Oh, you on the, uh, the METRIC calendar or something?
BOB: Nah, it's just...the CATTLE CALL is TOO MUCH. STORES are packed, MAIL takes forever, TRAVEL'S like twice the price...

BOB: And the actual DATE of Christmas is arbitrary anyhow. So we just bumped our celebration from the December solstice up to the March equinox.
We still take time as a family to exchange gifts and commemorate the birth of Christ, but we do it FREE of media nonsense and logistical hassle.

BELINDA: HUH. And GLORIA'S on BOARD with this?
BOB: Well...I sorta forgot to TELL her about it?
Let us just say that yesterday was "AWKWARD."

{{Header: make a tradition of WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: She will NOT be putting the snowman decorations back in the yard for Marchmas.}}

She will NOT be putting the snowman decorations back in the yard for Marchmas.

#475; In which Trouble is both avoided, and provoked

  — December 26th, 2008

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Applications open for Genius Northwest – an IRL gaming competition

May 8, 2026 by David Malki !

Last year, I participated in Genius Northwest, a gaming competition inspired by the Korean gameshow The Genius and its ilk.

It’s a reality show without the cameras — a 3-day, all-inclusive weekend retreat structured around a series of challenges and puzzles, in which personalities and dealmaking matter as much as playing games.

It’s truly a remarkable thing. I came in dead last in the competition, but I still had a great time participating.

The event is held annually in the Pacific Northwest (hence the name) and applications are now open to participate in the 2026 competition!

Learn more — and apply — at GeniusNW.com.


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