White on White

Hello Dudes- The biggest snow dump of the year happened over the last two day- probably a foot and a half of snow in town. The snow was interspersed with rain and sleet, so all of the white stuff on the ground was saturated roughly to the consistency and weight of half dry cement. The power was out for twelve hours. Mom and I were so bored without electronic stimuli (or coffee) that we attacked the driveway and sidewalks with our shovels and did battle with the odious and stiffening slush. The effort was confounded by the waist high wall of rock hard sludge skillfully erected around the full perimeter of where the road meets the driveway. Two hours later, bowed but victorious, all access to the public roads had been artfully restored. Re-remembering for the fourteenth time that the power was off, we drove downtown and had breakfast at Carvers. After breakfast we could hardly arise from our chairs, our backs and shoulders were so sore. And so we're home, the power is back on, and I'm about to hit the couch to watch the second playoff game (mom has taken a tub and is asleep) and in the name of all that is unfair, the channel on which the game is is out of commission due to the weather! Every other channel comes in perfectly. I guess god is telling me to read for a while- probably after a serious stretching session- my best hope for not being crippled for the next few days. Mom is getting a little bit frustrated about not video-chatting with any of you. We'll be home this (Sunday) evening, so if any of you reads this by then and is not otherwise inclined, give her a video buzz. Oops- just looked outside and its snowing again. Love you all- dad

TGI2008

Hi everybody. Oh yeah....I'm ibookin'! It's Thursday 01/03/08. Soon I must head to work
but first a hello. I am totally tentative doing anything computer. Spoiled having had
an entire tech crew here for a few days. I'm looking forward to a good, productive year. Filled with glowing good health, abundant wealth and riotous happiness.

Hope this finds everybody in great spirits. Carpe Diem! and all that jazz. Now let's see if i can send this thing out to y'all. Love and Miss You guys

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Hey guys! I don't have much to report except I've been really good about flossing and etc so far. Haven't missed one day. I think when I was in Italy I probably skipped 5 days of flossing &etc TOTAL over the course of my entire trip. I knkow it's not hard, it's even fast once you get in the practice of doing it.

Also, Branden and I cleaned our bedroom yesterday. It was ridiculously dirty, and I mean ridiculously, and now it looks really good! I'm very happy. We went out to a movie to celebrate. We saw Alien Versus Predator 2. If any of you saw AVP1, I have to tell you, this one was SO MUCH BETTER than the first. I mean, it's like the creators woke up from a prolonged drug binge, looked at the movie they'd made, and smacked themselves in the foreheads and immediately began working to rectify the situation. Anyway, it's very good for a good, old-fashioned, aliens killing people and each other sort of movie. :)

On Monday, ListenUp closed at 4 and were closed yesterday. Tomorrow is the first day of my weekend, but for now I'm a workin' stiff. :) I miss you guys! Love you all!