That was a short visit home for Christmas. I probably should have used some vacation time and stayed longer but I’ll probably go home again sooner now that I have the days to take off.

Son of a bitch !

Wikipedia: “Living with a depressed person – Those living with someone suffering from depression experience increased anxiety and life disruption, increasing the possibility of also becoming depressed.”

I got a new TV that I can now cross off my wishlist.
It’s a 37″ LCD supporting 1920 x 1080P resolution. Perfect for HD-DVD movies, my computer and Xbox 360. The reason I jumped on this is because I got it for nearly half price using some coupons and sale events. They’re sold out everywhere now and back up to regular price.

I figure it will be almost a year before it’ll naturally drop to what I got it for so I might as well get it now.

It appears I have a new pool-playing partner.

Dominican was great.

I’ll be going to Dominican Republic – Puerto Plata in a week:

I’ve lived in different houses and owned a couch for about 7 years and never owned a coffee table. I went out last night looking for one and ended up bringing one home.
It’s so nice looking.

Updates:

New plan, going to Cuba for a week in November if my passport comes in time – cruise possibly next year instead.

I’m having a Halloween/Housewarming party end of this month so anyone can come, let me know.

Nearly finished building my deck. I was going to take the existing deck, drop the main part down to a foot off the ground, have stairs going down to it from the patio door and resurface the top but I ended up totally doing everything from scratch. It’s very stable, looks great and I even did the diagonal look on the top. I have an upper platform with handrail out from the patio door, steps leading to a mid platform going to the main deck or to the ground.