Masks, could any other theme characterize this pandemic year?
Yes, we barely got rid of Trump, but returning to the tired neoliberal policies of the Wall Street Democrats which helped elect him in the first place. Will they respond to the demands of the people? To the demands of the common good of the masses of ordinary people rather than the usual fraction of a percent who pull the strings in our legally corrupt pretend democracy. We are not holding our breath.
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Volare
Babbo Natale vietato volare?
Date il dono della vita, mettetevi la maschera!
auguri per la pace, l'amore e comprehensione
ani e bob senza la maschera
nessun viaggio quest'anno
insegnare / imparare in linea e' un lavoro duro, apprezzate i vostri insengnanti / studenti
Benvenuti ai nuovi membri della mailing list annuale delle cartoline natalizie che ci collega con quasi 600 conoscenti e parenti vicini e lontani da oltre 40 anni (archiviati online)
schizzi selezionati dagli archivi di dr bob ora ignorati dal grande pubblico anche su Instagram
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We got a little help from Ani's mom this year. Neither wanted to be in the photo. Domestic mailing December 22, foreign December 24, but due to Trump's attempt to crash the USPS, delivery was considerably slowed down, taking 3 to 4 weeks to reach parts of Italy.
All ripped off from previous editions of the Christmas card, using Clip Art Paint to mask up all the usual suspects and fighting with Microsoft/Adobe to try to create and export to PDF for printing. Here is an example of preparing the sketches for masking:
For the first time since 1979 bob did not set foot in Italy! and the ani and bob summer show in our rented attic apartment with a view in the center of Rome did not go on after an anuual run since 2009! And the annual cheesecake parties in Sabaudia and Bove were derailed. We miss all our Italian friends everywhere and our summer neighborhood in particular!
Yes, 40 years of dr bob's wierd sense of humor infecting several dozen countries around the planet once a year and saved for posterity (or until bob's expiration date).
The masked photo in our car outside Trader Joe's in Gateway Shopping Center, our favorite boutique food source.
The unmasked photo with bob wearing a tie was from our celebration of Ani's birthday in outside tent seating of the ovrepriced but high quality Italian restaurant Savona at the base of our hill. Dressing up to make up for the COVID fashion which invaded our lives this year.
Because of the pandemic, no summer in Italy 2019! To visit our past collection of Facebook uploaded Italy summer photos (Warning: too many food shots) and for all bob's Facebook food posts without the politics, check out our Facebook food master index. Not to mention the continuing posts to the not quite a blog What, ME Cook? website which continues plodding along year after year.
Not quite so NEW but still largely ignored:
bob has been on Instagram another year to share his mostly last century sketch art with a few more people than randomly find his lonely mostly ignored website.
And now dr bob movie critic NOT! oversharing his thoughts on selected movie and TV stuff on Facebook.
The million people around the planet taken by the pandemic and mismanagement of the state response in many cases, and people's inability to do what is good for their health in others.
The color of the paper this year was ultra lemon but Villanova Fed-Ex contracted its space this past summer and the Z-fold machine was disappeared. They have to send it out for the Z-fold.
$154??? for 600 copies this time around.
This annual enterprise was sent out to about 570 recipients all over the world again with nice Love stamps to the domestic crowd (55 cents), Poinsetta Holiday stamp to destinations abroad ($1.15 ouch!). Love stamp archive! This page is amazing, it keeps on finding more Love Stame stuff to fill your screen!
Postage in the same ballpark as last year $412 = 400x0.55 domestic + 160x1.15 foreign for about 580 lucky recipients in about two dozen countries around the globe.
The dr bob negative profit corporation bookkeeping: a loss of over 600 bucks to plant a few smiles around the world, for a net gain not measurable in dollars, serving to keep in touch with so many people who have entered our lives over the years as we stumble through life.
please email us to stay in touch at aniandbob@drbobenterprises.com, we promise to reply! There is no way for us to include personal notes in this massive production project.
This year the crippled USPS had long delays in delivering our card, mailed out domestic Dec 22, foreign Dec 23, taking 3 to 4 weeks to reach many European locations.