Christmas Back Home
Christmas Back Home
[The panel depicts the interior of a house with numerous Christmas decorations. Santa stares at Cueball, who is sitting at his desk with his laptop.] 'Twas the night before Christmas at my family's house. There were no sound of stirring save the click of a mouse. For 'twas just like a childhood Christmas except I'd forgotten the hours that normal folks slept. Santa: What are you doing out of bed so late? Cueball: Late? It's barely 3AM!

The script begins similarly to the poem " A Visit from St. Nicholas ":
' Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
However, there is a change in the text due to the fact that Cueball is on a computer, perhaps coding or on the internet.  Instead, it reads
"'Twas the night before Christmas at my family's house" "There were no sounds of stirring save the click of a mouse."
The idea is that Cueball has been so used to being on the computer late at night (perhaps coding, or deep into some Internet argument ) and he's forgotten the hours normal people sleep that, when Santa Claus arrives, Cueball is still awake. Note the mouse pun.
Being forced to sleep at normal times is compared with jet lag : sleeplessness due to your body being synchronized to another time zone, so named because jet aircraft made it possible for people to travel farther and faster. Here, Cueball needs to turn back his internal clock over five hours to sync with his family.
[The panel depicts the interior of a house with numerous Christmas decorations. Santa stares at Cueball, who is sitting at his desk with his laptop.] 'Twas the night before Christmas at my family's house. There were no sound of stirring save the click of a mouse. For 'twas just like a childhood Christmas except I'd forgotten the hours that normal folks slept. Santa: What are you doing out of bed so late? Cueball: Late? It's barely 3AM!
