Merry Christmas to all!

A different rendition of "Twas the night before Christmas."

December 24th, 2007 at 3:00pm — Comments: (0) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: Humor

Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the house
not a device was active
except my DVR and my mouse

All servers were off,
the gaming consoles were humming
downloading their updates
to keep the gamers running.

As I went upstairs
for a good nights sleep
I realized I forgot something
so I can't make a peep.

I looked in at my wife
and checked on my son
Both were sleeping soundly
and it was only 11:31.

I crept to my home office
One more thing had to be done.
I turned on my Dell
and looked for the mail icon.

I had to send one last email
to a dear client of mine
they had to know the project
wasn't going to be behind.

After the email was sent
and the application shut down
I thought, "Let's check on Santa using Norad
and see if he's downtown?"

As I looked for Santa on the map
I noticed he was near
he was inside the U.S., no..closer,
he was almost here.

Just at that moment,
I heard a thump on the roof.
I need to see if it was a burglar
I needed some proof.

I looked out the window
I thought I'd seen it all
There was a big red sleigh
with eight reindeer standing tall.

A glance from my eye,
I noticed something red
slipped down the chimney.
Down the stairs, I fled.

I slowly made my way to the living room
trying not to make a noise
and then I found Santa
unloading his sack of toys.

I crouched down to watch
as Santa placed all of the gifts around the tree
He grabbed a couple of cookies and milk
and marched towards the chimney.

At first, I thought he would leave
without even saying a word
but he stopped dead in his tracks
which I thought was a little absurd.

He slowly turned around
and looked directly at me
With a smile hidden in his beard
he said "Hmm...let me see"

He reached into his pocket
and pulled out something small
it looked like a memory stick
but it could be nothing at all.

He threw the object to me
and said with a wink
"You need to slow down.
Know when to play and when to think."

He touched his nose
and went to the roof in a blink
He rode away to the next house
before I could even think.

I opened my hand
and what to my surprise
was a 64GB USB Drive
Portable data...Super-sized!

I heard him exclaim
as he rode out of sight
"Merry Christmas to all,
and to all, a good night!"