I suspect that the ebots celebrated New Years... the American, the Chinese, the Jewish, the Mithrain, and Yule... so we'll be lucky to see them come staggering back sometime after snowmelt. ;^) A quick eyeballing looks like gunsan will take the lead with 20 votes, so he probably ought to be thinking of a challenge theme for this month while waiting for RimRunner to do the official annointing bit. Carolly