Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone. It has been a good day today. I've only had about 5 hours of sleep since Sunday morning so my wife and kids let me get about 5 undistrubed hours of sleep this afternoon.
I woke up to find one of my best presents though. A member of the VU family has been having a difficult year like so many of us. He is out of work and dealing with health issues and he and his wife were forgoing gifts for themselves in order to scrape up anything they could for their kids.
About a month ago, I took some money that I got for my birthday from my parents and placed an order directly with Tobeco and had purchased 2 Dark Horses and 2 Apollo mech mods. Once I saw the Dark Horses I knew that I'd never like the airflow and I had seen a post from this fellow vaper about how he had broken his mech and was limping by with an old battery. I had been planning to sell the Dark Horses and 1 of the Apollos to try and get some of my birthday money back to spend on something else, but after everything that I have received from the community, including the gift of fellowship and friendship, I couldn't stand seeing him and his wife go without this year and after telling him that I needed his address for a gift and that I wouldn't take no for an answer to sending him one, he and his wife received a Dark Horse each and an Apollo mod to replace his broken mod.
He and his wife are blowing clouds as I type this and sharing some Xmas cheer, and I'm feeling the joy of the holiday with one of best birthday presents that I've given myself in a long time.
I plan on spending most of the night spending time with my family, but I wish everyone a great holiday filled with good time spent with friends and family. Hope you all have as good of a Christmas as mine is turning out to be.