Has anyone noticed how perfectly the winter holidays fall this year? It couldn't be better: December 24-25 are a Thursday/Friday combination, so there is a 4-day weekend. The following week, January 1 is a Friday so that's a 3-day weekend. Not one to let an opportunity like this pass me by, I requested off Monday, December 28 through Thursday, ( Read more... )

Happy New Year ( Read more... )

We didn't do anything really exciting for NYE. We decided to go out to dinner to the Timber Lodge Steakhouse, and of course ended up waiting a long while for a table. Jonas had a beer and we just waited around talking in the meantime. When we finally got called, the hostess girl who was to show us to our table took a quick glance at me and asked if ( Read more... )