Nerds for the Holidays — Space Christmas Tree Edition
I'm unabashedly a fan of the holiday season. The fire department putting wreaths on their fire trucks. People who decorate their bikes with antlers. The cheesy fake snowmen in peoples' yards. I love it. My family celebrates Christmas, and each year since I was a kid, we'd get this ginormous Christmas tree to go in the dining room. We'd go up into the mountains and cut down something ridiculously tall, then bring in a ladder from the shed to decorate it. Some years, my mom got us to craft ornaments for a themed tree. (Which was quite the undertaking with…