Why is this Holiday / New Year's message on time?

Well, of course because it is actually last year's letter a little late. Really! I was still thinking about writing a letter about 2006 at the time of the 2007 Summer solstice! And I had been thinking about putting this New Year's message up on Ye Olde Cancer Blog, where I had my year-end message about 2005 (here) . But I decided to start with a clean slate /blogger template -- although I don't mean to keep this up as a blog, it's just a New Year's update.