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You get best wishes for the holidays from the column writer. He is currently looking at the clock and trying to figure out when to turn the oven on for the roast dinner. On the hottest day of the year. The dinner will be basted with a mixture of trepidation, perspiration, and garlic. Tomorrow is Boxing Day and if it was all on before, it will all be on again. The adventurous will go surfing and shopping - the rest of us will cocoon up in the coldest room of the house and either watch Bond movies, read holiday gift books, or build model airplanes. There will be leftovers. I pray for hungry visitors upon which I can unload them.