Countdown to the New Year

Happy New Year's Eve!



As we count down the minutes to the new year, I found this time widget from the Time and Frequency Divsion of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST):



The original HTML did not work. I had to make a few small changes to get it to work in this blog.

Merry Christmas!

Traditions...

• Opening presents with the family


• Eating lots of good food


• Playing games on the Wii


• Watching "A Christmas Story"
  ... "You'll shoot your eye out, kid"

Our tree before and after decorating...

Christmas Eve

It is Christmas Eve and time to light the Yule Log...



Need some snow to help get in the Christmas mood? Using Firefox or Chrome, go to Google, and search for "let it snow".

Merry Christmas!

$15 Christmas trees

In today's newspaper, The Messenger, Athens, Ohio, I found the following ad:

TOM AND AMY'S
TREES
$5 per foot
SPECIAL
Any tree - 7 ft or over
$15. Take 50W, right on
Radford Rd, left on
Baker Rd., aproximately
3 miles.
740-698-5333

So if I wanted a 6-foot tree, it would cost $30. Or I could get it half-price by buying a 7-foot tree for $15 and cutting off the bottom!

The misspelling of "approximately" is in the original ad.

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

Traditions...

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
National Dog Show
Family
Turkey Dinner and all the fixings

Highlights from today...

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Scotty McCreery lip sync FAIL

National Dog Show: New dog breed - Xoloitzcuintli (phonetic pronunciation is show-low-eats-queen-tlee)

Family...


What should not be part of the traditions is shopping...