The engagement party last night was amazing. Everyone put so much work into making everything run smoothly and well. Especially Dane and Greg and Lisa’s parents who really helped to put everything together and make sure that everything ran so smoothly. Even with the groom to be and his family managing to get completely lost and arrive 2 hours late… (though if anyone needs a good shortcut to New Millford, I can provide) Thank you to everyone for coming and for all your congratulations and thoughtful gifts.

Something weird going on with the archive. Going to try and fix it soon.

Anyone who needs directions to my engagement party, give me a call on my cell phone. The party’s Saturday Dec. 28th @ 6PM.

Merry Christmas to everyone! BBQ grilled turkey and stuffing are definitely the way to go for dinner. Korean food isn’t bad as an appetizer, but it’s nice to have a sitdown family meal followed by a boardgame.

Finally done with Finals for the semester. What a great feeling. Now I’m just looking forward to some Christmas and getting into the engagement party on the 28th. Happy holidays for everyone.

Last night was pretty crazy. The basic timeline: Miss the first train. Rush through dinner. Arrive at STOMP only to find out that apparently there’s a time restriction on our tickets where you have to show up 1/2 hour early (not what I was told over the phone when I made the reservation) Decide to see Lord of the Rings:Two Towers instead. They’re sold out for an hour. Wait in a bar until just before the movie only to find out OUR tickets are for the OTHER Loews theatre 2 blocks away (despite saying we didn’t want that show) Rushing to that theatre. The movie was great, but by the time we get out, we rush to the Port Authority only to find out that their subway stop is closed late at night, causing us to miss the last train back to Jersey and wait in Penn Station for 3 hours… All in all, quite an odd night.

Only 1 exam left to go next week, then nothing more for a while. It’s such a liberating feeling to be free from that time immediate pressure feeling. I’m going to see STOMP tomorrow night, with some tickets I got through work. Should be interesting, and I’m excited since I’ve heard a lot of good things about the show. Ben Stein wrote an editorial about How to Ruin American Enterprise where he rants on about the decline of the American work ethic and willingness to take responsibility for our actions. I quite agree.

This whole blogging thing is rather addictive, I must admit. I’ve had all these great ideas for things that I could do to my site now, to make it more interesting, and also things that wouldn’t (hopefully) need more work from me. It should be interesting seing in a few weeks or so, how things end up progressing, and what we end up with. I was just thinking that I’ll probably end up setting up a similar site for ROTC or something along those lines.

I just inserted sections on films and books that I’ve read or viewed recently. I will most likely be updating those sections rather infrequently, but there are so many good books and other works out there, that I just had to plug a few that have caught my eye.

I’m starting to add some other interesting items, in addition to the newslinks I have a photo album, guestbook, and some other items in the offering. Hopefully over the next few days I’ll manage to put things together.