Today it’s my last day for this year at our office. I’m going on holiday for the last weeks of December, to get my life situation fixed.

This evening, when my colleague and friend Sven W. gave me a ride back home, I asked him, just as a joke, what I should do with my sparetime now, and he gave me my "second" xmas present for this year. (Actually it’s the first present, but I do see our Son Sean Ryan as my first XMAS Present)

He presented me the book "The Power Of Less" by Leo Babauta, and I was really surprised. 

I was even more surprised when I opened the book and read Svens hand written dedication, I’m not translating it, but I’m writing this dedication down in German (sorry for that):

"
Wenn ich gute Blogs bzw. RSS Feeds empfehlen sollte, dürfte jedoch nur einen einzigen nennen,
dann wäre das derzeit der Blog bon ‘Leo Babauta’ auf http://zehhabits.net/ .
Kurz gefolgt von meinem :-) (ahem…)

Dieses Buch ist eine Art Zusammenfassung seiner Blog-Artikel.

Ich dachte, du kannst es vielleicht als Ergänzung für deine Erholungsphase gebrauchen …

<followed by some korean letters, I can’t repeat here>
(translation in western writing): jom-bwa-ju-se-yo
(meaning): Please take a look at it

Sven
"

TBH, this dedication is more worth then anything else, because you can see here, that colleagues and friends, DO CARE.

So, I’m saying this, because I know he reads my blog, 

Sven,

thank you for this. It means a lot to me, and I’ll take a look at it…see you on XMAS Day and on New Years Eve.

\sh