By early December, the Christmas spirit was in high spring. Not only for civilians but mostly for companies who sought to buy out the the holiday season in everyone. Everywhere one would look, a sale for some holiday decoration was waiting to crumble a middle classes' broke hand. That is why Gordo figured that many Americans use the same decorative supply as the year before to save up. And that is also why Gordo decided he celebrate his family's yearly tradition of Hanukkah instead.

Hanukkah was still a holiday, but it was different.

People still marketed for Hanukkah, but that too was different.

Though Oswald himself at age 20 was minimally religious, the old family tradition still held interest for him. The holiday was a feel-good religious observance similar to the Passover. A holiday that many religious Jews and Jewesses took seriously. A holiday that Gordo wanted to observe himself this December festive season.

Gordo found his girlfriend's loft door locked. He fumbled again and again until he picked the lock himself. "Miranda, Sweetie, I'm home!"

Nothing. No sound except for the 1994 TV model that was programming the show, Early Edition. Oswald looked around for his favorite comfy green chair and sat in it.

The year was 2002, and Ozzie sought to impress his girlfriend Miranda this holiday season. He had looked around for TV show themed gifts. He found on the web...a Gilmore Girls coaster, an Even Stevens sweater and a Xena: Warrior Princess mug.

Miranda was not the kind to receive packages, so Gordo threw all the gifts on her bed.

Gordo sighed and put his feet up. He looked on the floor where the remote usually is and changed the channel. 'Hercules: Legendary Journeys' was on HI. Hercules wasnt particularly Gordo's favorite show but he didn't mind having it on. Since it was 2002, Hercules and Xena were on the reruns and Oswald must've seen the episode where Hercules confronts his stepmother Xara with the help of his sidekick, Iolaus, about 30 times. That didn't bother Gordo because just like Star Trek, Hercules was a great science fiction series. Towards the end of the episode, Oswald began to feel hungry. He walked over to the fridge and found only ham and 2 bottles of vodka. Damn, he thought.

But having the festive mentality in mind, he remembered an old episode of a Mediterranean cooking show back home in Chicago. He remembered how they featured a Jewish side...pita bread with a strip of ham cooked in vodka. Gordo had everything.