Happy New Year!
Well, that's a little late as it's already half way through the month of January and I'm just now getting my first 2008 post done! HA!
We had a pretty bad ice storm at the end of December 2007 which knocked down a lot of tree branches (and whole trees) and knocked out power for quite a few homes. We have a big tree between us and our neighbors that lost a lot of limbs. A couple limbs fell across our chimney on the house (no damage thankfully!). A couple weeks ago we had some really nice warmer days and with the help of my neighbor, we got them all cleaned up and the county works department came around and picked them up.
We stayed home on New Year's Eve, built a fire in the fireplace, ate some great finger foods that my wife made and we just enjoyed some family time.
On New Year's Day, I watched a great college football game, The Cotton Bowl, with the Missouri Tigers whooping up on the Arkansas Razorbacks!! MU running back Tony Temple broke two Cotton Bowl records of number of touchdowns in a game and total yards rushing! The final score was 38-7! Awesome (if you're a Tiger fan)!!
On Monday, Jan 7th, we had some major problems with a system here at work. I worked on it most of the afternoon and into the evening. I kept getting calls about it throughout the night and had to come into work a little early too on Tuesday. With the help from IBM support, we finally found a system fix for it, recycled it Tuesday evening and all was well with the world again.
Because of the comp time acquired, I took off that Friday (11th). I got the oil changed in the car, picked up a few groceries, had lunch with my daughter at home, then took her to kindergarten. After that, I ended up at our local Best Buy store where I bought a Sony 52" XBR4 LCD TV. Whooo Baby! I also bought a TV stand for it as well. I had a nice 12% coupon I got to use to help knock off a big chunk of the price too! Cool!
It was delivered yesterday (15th)! The only problem was that the delivery guys forgot to leave the remote to the TV. They had taken the TV out of the box before bringing it in and I guess didn't check the box for the remote. I was at work when it came and my wife was at home at the time. After repeated calls by her and me after getting home, I finally got a replacement remote (they couldn't find the original one which was probably in the trash bin with the box). Needless to say, I was pretty upset and stressed out by it all and didn't have a lot of time to play with the TV. I did get the PS3 (Playstation 3) hooked up to it and Man, does it look NICE!
Last weekend (11-13th) all three of my sister-in-law's came for a visit. They along with my wife went out "home decor" shopping most of the day on Saturday (12th). They had a great time and we all have a nice visit with them. It's not often that all of the sisters are together except for Thanksgiving or Christmas, so this was pretty special.
Enough for now...
Blessings!
We had a pretty bad ice storm at the end of December 2007 which knocked down a lot of tree branches (and whole trees) and knocked out power for quite a few homes. We have a big tree between us and our neighbors that lost a lot of limbs. A couple limbs fell across our chimney on the house (no damage thankfully!). A couple weeks ago we had some really nice warmer days and with the help of my neighbor, we got them all cleaned up and the county works department came around and picked them up.
We stayed home on New Year's Eve, built a fire in the fireplace, ate some great finger foods that my wife made and we just enjoyed some family time.
On New Year's Day, I watched a great college football game, The Cotton Bowl, with the Missouri Tigers whooping up on the Arkansas Razorbacks!! MU running back Tony Temple broke two Cotton Bowl records of number of touchdowns in a game and total yards rushing! The final score was 38-7! Awesome (if you're a Tiger fan)!!
On Monday, Jan 7th, we had some major problems with a system here at work. I worked on it most of the afternoon and into the evening. I kept getting calls about it throughout the night and had to come into work a little early too on Tuesday. With the help from IBM support, we finally found a system fix for it, recycled it Tuesday evening and all was well with the world again.
Because of the comp time acquired, I took off that Friday (11th). I got the oil changed in the car, picked up a few groceries, had lunch with my daughter at home, then took her to kindergarten. After that, I ended up at our local Best Buy store where I bought a Sony 52" XBR4 LCD TV. Whooo Baby! I also bought a TV stand for it as well. I had a nice 12% coupon I got to use to help knock off a big chunk of the price too! Cool!
It was delivered yesterday (15th)! The only problem was that the delivery guys forgot to leave the remote to the TV. They had taken the TV out of the box before bringing it in and I guess didn't check the box for the remote. I was at work when it came and my wife was at home at the time. After repeated calls by her and me after getting home, I finally got a replacement remote (they couldn't find the original one which was probably in the trash bin with the box). Needless to say, I was pretty upset and stressed out by it all and didn't have a lot of time to play with the TV. I did get the PS3 (Playstation 3) hooked up to it and Man, does it look NICE!
Last weekend (11-13th) all three of my sister-in-law's came for a visit. They along with my wife went out "home decor" shopping most of the day on Saturday (12th). They had a great time and we all have a nice visit with them. It's not often that all of the sisters are together except for Thanksgiving or Christmas, so this was pretty special.
Enough for now...
Blessings!
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