December 22. “Button, I hope you don’t get bored of the little bits of news I keep dumping on you every now and then.

I mean I may find them interesting but you may not!”

“Who told you so? I also like the fact that you either remember or cut out the more detailed ones to share with me. Which means that you think of me when you read the newspapers every morning every single day! It makes me feel very important.”

“I am so glad. So you actually like the fact that I think of you many times during the course of the day!”

“Of-course.”

“What is one of this decade’s worst ideas?”

“Tell me.”

“The blackberry because we are all e-mail chain-smokers now.”

“Oops. How apt. Are you also a chain-messenger?”

“Nothing doing. If I had my way, I wouldn’t be carrying a cell phone. It’s too prying.”

“At the same time it is also very useful and convenient.”