Santa Came Early

Daniel found out about Old Sant Nicholas and the North Pole and all those elves (wink, wink) . . . so, we needed him to go with us to get the right size bike and then, well, what was the point of waiting another 3 weeks for the actual day when the weather was perfect for bike riding and your best friend was waiting for you to get home so you could play and ride bikes together.

Christmas on Thanksgiving

This big truck was suppose to arrive at 8:30 am. At 12:30 pm it pulled up to my house with a special delivery.


Then Ryan from Florida and some yahoo from the Bronx put the delivery in the middle of my lving room.


Then all the men stood around waiting to figure out how 2 strong men would put this thing together. It ended up that 4 strong men were needed for the job.

And finally here it is all set-up and ready for playing.

Counting Down

All I Want For Christmas

is a Kindle.

A friend at work just got one and it is the best gift for any reader out there. You can download and read books, newspapers, magazines or even audio books. It is the size of a book and when you hold it it actually feels like a soft leather bound book. It has Wi-Fi so that you can download books, newspapers and magazines from amazon anywhere there is Wi-Fi.

Reading Suggestions

I have spent the last couple of weeks devouring books. TV hasn't been very good lately! I started with "The Glass Castle", by Jeanette Wells. It is a memoir, but reads like a novel. This is a very powerful book. I definitely think it would be a great bookclub suggestion.

Next I read "The Senator's Wife", by Sue Miller. It was another exceptional book. Then it was back to a memior "Running with Scissors", by Augsten Burroughs. This was a good book, but really tough emotionally to read. There are a couple of situations in the book that were very difficult to read - think "Brokeback Mountain".

Now I have started "Vinegar Hill", I have only read 20 pages so I am not sure how this one will end up. I will let you know.

Anyone have other reading suggestions? Lately I enjoy reading memoirs though that might get a little old soon.

Earlier This Week

This was the price of gas at the beginning of this week. Yesterday afernoon I paid $1.91. You might think this is a weird thing to blog about, however, I want to document when we last saw gas prices below $2.00. In my mind we are still paying close to $4.00 as that was the price right before Hurricane Ike.

Since then the prices have continued to drop. This is a good news bad news situation as the companies Cisco and I work for have been benefiting greatly from the high gas prices. We know that Exxon recently decided not procede with 2 oil related projects. This means that the enginnering company hired to do the work will most likely begin laying off engineers. Not good news! I hope it doesn't spread.

The Aliens Are Coming

A delayed Happy Halloween greeting.