FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for December 24, 2022

touché, Jason (when my father was growing up, he’d open his Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve as well; did it the first year he was married to my mother too)

Guam gets it first, Hawaii last.

In Iceland, everybody opens their presents on Christmas Eve.

An optical mouse. Nice upgrade. Now you won’t have to take the ball out and clean the lint off of the rollers inside with a pair of tweezers anymore. (Lint build-up not only affected performance, it affected the “feel” of the mouse.)

Shows you how dated this strip is.

In my military career, I’ve missed first steps, school plays, anniversaries, birthdays and every holiday on the calendar except one: Christmas. There was one Christmas when I traveled for 48 hours and literally from the other side of the world to get “home” (the place where the family was gathered that year), but I made it.

I thank God and my wife (and maybe not even in that order) for keeping it all together for me.

Not dated at all. Greetings and prayers to all troops, but still wish you were all home

Wasn’t one of the soldiers killed during Biden’s Afghanistan surrender named Jason?

Jason Loophole Fox…

Afghanistan is dead last on the “places I’d like to visit” list

My siblings and I once got up at 5am on Christmas morning. That wasn’t as bad as this.

We open one present each Sunday coming to Christmas and depending on when we travel we open the rest either on Christmas Eve or Christmas itself.

Don’t forget to put holes in the box.

That’s actually a very nice thought, Jason. And Dad should have thought that too and called everyone else in to do the same.

We got our presents on Christmas Eve and after marriage our kids got theirs wrapped and every grandchild also got theirs wrapped. Makes for a messy Christmas Day.

Think of it as a realistic video game. But there’s no respawning.