Well for me another Christmas has come and gone and I enjoyed it I must say. I did get Christmas eve off and even though I went too work 6 pm on Christmas day it did not damped my spirits any because I did get to spend the day with my family. Although getting up 6;30 in the morning was not really the crowning point of the day let me tell you, especially when it was pushing close to the same time the next day before I crawled back in bed again. My wife and son enjoyed their gifts and to me that was the best present of all, we wasted a lot of money on our son we got him a Nintendo DS and he never put the thing down yet so we could have just stopped at that one gift and he would have been happy.

I was shocked to see my gifts though I must say. I new I was getting a PS2 because I asked for it so I could get my mitts on NASCAR 2005 and metal gear solid 3. I got a new surround sound system; I now wonder how I could have possibly watched a movie without it before. I had received the band of brothers DVD collection and the ear assault that came out of my speakers was pure ambrosia to my ear canals I had a grin on my face all day. If you don’t have a surround sound system save up and get one just as good as being in a movie theater seriously.

The other big gift was a nice watch that I will need a PHD in geek to understand the manual. One thing bothers me about it, well besides the price I almost had a stroke when I found out how much it was. How could an expensive watch not have a light on it for using it in the dark? Even though it has a lot of bells and whistles no light? Come on! It is solar powered though and it has a back up battery and when it is not in light it goes into power saving mode, so when you bring it into light it displays the time and the analog seconds hand races around the faces until it catches up with the correct time tres cool in my mind. Anyway got to go talk to you all later have happy holidays every body!

This Friday night, Saturday in reality and I just got home from work and I am relaxing and sipping on rum and coke or a couple all depends. Just taking an edge off a hectic week, one more day to go. Listening to over the hills and far away through my head phones anyone want to guess who it is by? I for some reason cannot get the guitar riff out of my mind I think I will have to break down and look up the tabs and learn how to play the damn thing. Soon it will be the end of another year how depressing knowing that we are one step closer to the end of our existence. I am reading a book the last couple of weeks when the whim hits me about ghosts. Is it real or not, fact or fiction? I believe there is something after this life as we know it. To come in the world a drooling and cooing creature and to check out in the same state with the injustice of an orderly changing you well damn there got to be a consolation prize for that. Don’t you think? If not that is a show stopping depressing moment right there! However to get off that sour topic I am glad the holidays are coming up I am excited to see our son’s face on Christmas morning. I know both him and my wife will be happy, all I want for Christmas is to see a smile on their faces. I got the feeling I will be working both Christmas eve and Christmas night I hope I will be working 6 to 3 on that one so I can spend Christmas day with my family. Anyway got to go talk to you all later.

Well right now it is 3:50 at night and I am sitting in front of the old computer screen soaking up some UV rays and wondering what I am going to do to get to sleep tomorrow. Right now I am using a crutch ( Jack Daniels) to get to get some sleep tonight or today whatever the hell it is. This new shift is killing the sleeping habits let me tell you. It get home 3:30am and brush my teeth and head to bed because there is nothing on, everyone else is in bed and what the hell else is there to do. So I lie there tossing and turning until 6:30 or so when my wife rises to go to work and I fall in a slumber until12 and rinse repeat. All I can say is tick tock my man until I freak the fuck out at work and rip a royal strip out of some one at work and get sent to the principle’s office. That is coming sooner than I think. One good thing is the lack of pressure but the lack of sleep is sleep is getting to my supervisor as well so I am not the only one. Anyway talk to you all later got to go I am getting buzzed, insert lopsided grin here. VICTORY IS MINE!

Got myself a three day weekend which is a welcome relief, this is the first time I actually got an extra day off since last Easter when I went to NFLD. So I am looking forward to relaxing and not having some one ask me a question every 2 or 3 minutes and not hearing my name called out with a furious snapping of the fingers to follow. This weekend I get to spend some quality time with my family as I recharge my batteries and decompress. I think we may be going to a Christmas party tonight which should be fun if we can get somebody to watch our son for a few hours if not we will have fun relaxing at home either way it will be all good. I cannot believe it is almost time for the holidays already and true to form I have not done any shopping I wonder why I always procrastinate shopping for the last minute? Probably because I despise the crowds at the mall during this time of year, there is nothing worse than almost getting run over by a senior citizen making a bee line for the lowest price. Depressing actually when you think of the state of affairs that one single holiday will bring us too. Normal people are turned into savage shoppers invading local stores like Genghis khan invading China. Anyway I got to go talk to you all later have a good one everybody.