Another pandemic year? Yup! Omicron is beating us up now.
And a year of failure in the Democratic Party to start making the changes we need for survival. But we decided to be apolitical this year, and try for good natured smiles.
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Ancora un'altra stagione delle vacanze tenuta in ostaggio da una lettera greca...
Boh? No, Omicron. [greco non latino!]
Abbiamo tutti bisogno di continuare a sorridere quando possiamo, anche se solo attraverso i nostri occhi sopra le mascherine.
"Anche questo deve passare."
Sii sicuro per te stesso e per gli altri... e non perdere la tua empatia.
bob prefers to use the word "repurposing" rather than "self-plagiarism". ClipStudio facilitated the modifications needed for this work. The recipient count grew this year from quite a few COVID neighborhood exercise walking encounters with friendly neighbors. About 4 hours of Ani, Bob and Isgouhi work assembled the cards for mailing on December 30. While the last edition 2020 mailed around Christmas time arrived at a friend's university in Turkey on December 23, 2021, a new record. All cards were mailed December 30, and the first card arrived in Rome 8 days later on January 7, but to other parts of the city over 10 or more days later.
See production above. Referring to the dr bob sketch archives and xmas gallery online: Christmas 1980 provided the main Santa sketch. CfA chickens donated the "o" sign holder. Bryn Mawr the "Oh" guy next. Then the UCB it's about time mouse on the right. Then back to our primitive beginnings: the 1977 Christmas bird.
We managed a COVID cautious 5 week trip to Italy.
Yes, already 40 some years of dr bob's weird sense of humor infecting several dozen countries around the planet once a year and saved for posterity (or until bob's expiration date).
How to choose?!!! Click on each thumbnail for a big view.
at home; dinner at Rosalie; on a fast Italian train
Ponte Rialto (Venice); Venice; Armenian arch (Venice)
Piazza San Marco (Venice); Spanish Steps (Roma); Fontana di Trevi (Roma)
Stile Benaco (Roma); Mendel Dinner 2021 (Villanova)
To visit our past collection of Facebook uploaded Italy summer photos (Warning: too many food shots) and for all bob's Facebook food posts without the politics, check out our Facebook food master index. Not to mention the continuing posts to the not quite a blog What, ME Cook? website which continues plodding along year after year.
Not quite so NEW but still largely ignored:
bob has been on Instagram another year to share his mostly last century sketch art with a few more people than randomly find his lonely mostly ignored website, with updated captions.
And dr bob movie critic NOT! continues oversharing his thoughts on selected movie and TV stuff on Facebook, a lot of couch potato lifestyle going on during this pandemic.
So much needless suffering and so much indifference on the part of those who are living secure lives.
The color of the paper this year was ivory.
$220 for 660 copies this time around. About 60 bucks on envelopes.
This annual enterprise was sent out to about 630 = 430 + 200 recipients all over the world again with nice Love stamps to the domestic crowd (now 58 cents), still the Poinsetta Holiday stamp to destinations abroad in about 2 dozen countries ($1.30 ouch!). Love stamp archive! This page is amazing, it keeps on finding more Love Stamp stuff to fill your screen!
Postage a bit more than last year at $530 = 440x0.58 domestic + 210x1.30 foreign for about 630 lucky recipients in more than two dozen countries around the globe.
The dr bob negative profit corporation bookkeeping: a loss of over 800 bucks to plant a few smiles around the world, for a net gain not measurable in dollars, serving to keep in touch with so many people who have entered our lives over the years as we stumble through life.
The first cards took only 8 days to reach Italy this year.
Please email us to stay in touch at aniandbob@drbobenterprises.com, we promise to reply! There is no way for us to include personal notes in this massive production project.