But, of course, one man's distraction is another man's treasure. A distraction it may be - for most Californians - but for Jeff Flint, it's Christmas in July.
And so, in the spirit of this midsummer Yuletide, I dedicate this retelling of Dickens' classic Victorian morality tale ... to Jeff - in the faint hope that he might undergo as profound an experience of redemption over the course of reading this diary as did ol' Ebenezer that fateful night so poignantly described in A Christmas Carol.
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