Thank god. The XMas rush is mostly over.  I'm down to close to normal sales numbers, which is great since it means our taper off was vastly lower than this time last year.  It is also bad because I had planned for a taper off earlier and dropped my re-order rates. Which means I'm out of a LOT of 'classic' and 'bestseller' games well before I should be like Carcassonne.  In fact, even with going down once a week, we were still missing the mark on stock numbers on a regular basis this XMas.

I doubt anyone actually expected me to be a contributing member to the community in this period.  Heee. Only reason I'm posting is 'cause I'm sick of packing boxes.  But some quick observatoins about XMas: