^^Merry Christmas.  As for the block size/difficulty--as it went up from 4mil to 6.9mil the value of BTC has almost tripled as far as I can tell.  And as for BFL, all good things come to those who wait.  If you ordered late 2012 then you'll be on the upside of the curve...it's the miners who order when actual products hit the market that will be behind the curve the most.  It seems Avalon batch #3 which was only supposed to be 600 has a queue of like 9k+ so maybe they are following the new standard.  But an ASIC in the hand is worth 10 in the bush...