I hope everyone had a happy Christmas season which didn't end on the 26th as store would like you to think, but started on the 25th and went through until yesterday!

For Christmas Jessica and I went down to Missouri. We took a new route through Iowa and got through the Hawkeye State before the snowstorm came through. We also got to see all the ( Read more... )

Though we didn't have a white Christmas (aside from some specks of snow still in the grass along the north shady edge of the front yard), Jessica and I had a nice Christmas. We went to the Christmas Eve service at church at 6 PM. It wasn't too cold, so we walked; it took about 15 minutes at the most. We arrived about seven minutes before the ( Read more... )

Merry

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TOKYO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With the year-end shopping season approaching, expectations are running high that Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS) will repeat the success of its DS handheld machine next month with its new game console, the Wii.
"Year-end shopping season"?! No one is shopping because it's the end of the year; people are shopping for ( Read more... )

Jessica is leaving this morning for a conference trip to DC where she has a job interview with Salve Regina University of Newport, RI. We're excited for her first job interview. The things we weren't excited for was the trip. Who schedules a conference to start the day after Christmas? She leaves in a few minutes from the airport and will be ( Read more... )

"Only seven more shopping days left until Holiday."

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