It’s Christmas time again and at times it feel weird that the year is almost done. However, it also feels like 2017 has been dragging along forever. This year Christmas is a mostly quiet affair for us. We’re hitting the Chinese buffet for Christmas Eve dinner, and then Christmas Day is visiting the casino with […]
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A Christmas Tree first
Our holiday tradition is to spend the day after Thanksgiving going for a walk as a family to #optoutside, and then putting up our Christmas tree while Bing Crosby plays in the background. This past week the wife and I spent some time looking around for a better artificial tree then the one I had […]
Read moreMy wife gets me
From my lovely wife I also got some drinkware. In this case, a couple of wine glasses that are overlaid with constellations of the summer and winter sky. These things are really cool looking, and since they are summer and winter, each glass is unique from the other. I love astronomy and this is an […]
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Merry Christmas 2016
As I write this entry on Christmas Eve, the family has just finished opening presents. We’re settling in for a relaxing evening, eventually watching the Polar Express (we watched Elf earlier today). I always love a nice quiet Christmas Eve together as a family. It seems that every year that I get older, Christmas changes […]
Read moreThe Santa Myth
A good friend of mine recently posted a link to his social media for an article about parenting, and the Santa Myth. The article was a decent take on one parent’s attempt to balance the idea of letting their kids believe in Santa Claus, while at the same time preparing for the day they stop believing. I […]
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Holiday traditions
Something that has been a tradition my entire life is starting the Christmas season the day after Thanksgiving. Ever since I was a child this day is the day when you put up the Christmas tree and decorate it. When I got married I continued this tradition, and today my sons helped me keep the […]
Read moreStarbucks red cup
OK people, let’s take a step back and look at the stupidity that is the Starbucks Christmas cup controversy. If you haven’t heard, there is a vocal sub-section of people who are infuriated that, because Starbucks didn’t cover their coffee cups in cute little drawings of holiday themed art, that it means that they’ve deiced […]
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Second Runnings 