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Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. No big marketing push, no gift pressure, just time with family, some good food and reflection on being thankful. This year however I spend most of Thanksgiving in bed (and I am thankful that I could). My throat is KILLING ME. It is all red and white and very sore. Been sticking to the hot liquids for the past few days trying to get it to be better, not much luck there tho.
We are heading back tomorrow morning so we are back home in time to get ready and get to Luke&Jen’s wedding rehersal. Janet and I are invited to the rehersal dinner afterwards but I don’t think we are going to be able to go. So I am thinking we might bring all the kids back with us in the morning and give Janet’s parents a day to be thankful for.

Hope everyone reading this had a great thanksgiving and I hope you survive the next could of weeks of chaos! Oh, and if you aren’t doing anything specific, or even if you are, come spend an hour with us on Dec 24.

well I had to drag the laptop along on vacation. have to get my school work done (and caught up)
so I am pulling the stuff out so I can get to work and guess what I forgot…. the power adapter…
thankfully a gateway power adapter fit and it charging the battery.
now I must be off to get my homework done before my mandatory NCIS break.

Someone commented a few posts ago asking what podcasts I listen to… well now you can see the podcasts I subscribe to.

You Are 90% “Average American”

You are average because you live within three miles of McDonalds. You are not average since you don’t think affirmative action is necessary.

Actually I am within 3 miles of three McDonalds and two Wal-Marts.

what a great day!
have a class in the morning downtown and then got a bunch of stuff to get done before the end of the week.
time for bed… finally.

something is coming…

Had a “Near Death Experience” this morning.
Was getting ready to head out the door and “safely removed” my external hard drive and iPod mini. Realizing that I had forgotten to sync my iPod to make sure I had all the nightly downloaded podcasts I reattached my iPod. Nothing….
When I “safely removed” the iPod the charge screen was on and it said ‘fully charged’ and then went blank.
I turned off the Hold Button and hit the click wheel…. nothing….. nothing….. NOTHING!!!!!!
Reconnected the sync cable…….. NOTHING!
Since it was well past the time to get out the door by this point I grabbed the cable and the iPod and threw them in my bag and hit the door. In the car on the way in I tried it a few more times… nothing…. blank screen…. no response…….
Got to the office and started searching the apple website… and found this…

Reset your iPod by toggling the Hold switch on and off (set it to Hold, and then turn it off again). Then press and hold the Center and Menu buttons for at least 6 seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

IT’S ALIVE!!! My iPod has been reborn! Praise The LORD!
It may not be a big deal to you… but I live with my iPod, and listen to about 20 podcasts. I can now enjoy the rest of my day.

The local paper had a GREAT article about Sunday’s game…

Legendary NFL quarterback Brett Favre brought his crippled team into Paul Brown Stadium Sunday and despite throwing five interceptions had the Green Bay Packers within 28 yards of a tying touchdown in the waning moments of Sunday’s game.
That’s what leaders do. No matter how rough a game they are having, they push on toward the goal.
Favre and the one-win Packers were denied by the Bengals, who prevailed 21-14. But a day before Halloween, Favre was fittingly reminiscent of those horror movie villains who just keep coming back from the dead.
Given the ball on the Packers own 10-yard line with just 56 seconds left in the game, Favre, benefitting from a controversial pass interference penalty, moved Green Bay down to the Cincinnati 28. Two plays later the comeback attempt had died, but it took the clock to finally stamp out Favre.
“I was scared to death — I’m not going to lie,” said Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer. “I was thinking, ‘Here we go. We’re going into OT, and let’s just hope they don’t go for two (points) on us.’”
That’s the kind of respect Favre has earned, even after a day with five picks.
Those five interceptions marked a career high — or is that low — for the three-time league MVP who has been playing for 15 years and has started 212 consecutive games.
But there were no excuses afterwards.
“I am not going to sit here and make excuses. I am a firm believer that you make your own breaks — your own luck — to a certain extent,” Favre said.
“Our defense played extremely well and gave us plenty of chances to win, and we didn’t. We had some opportunities on offense and we didn’t make the most of them. I give the Bengals credit.”
The 6-2 Bengals are a fun team to watch. They are exciting. The crowd (announced at 65,940) was into the game and they were not disappointed.
There were only two noticeable glitches to the entire day. One was during the National Anthem. The other was when an apparently drunk fan barged onto the field and took the ball away from Favre in the final seconds.
Hot Apple Pie, a new country music group headlined by Fairfield native Brady Seals, was the Anthem culprit. About halfway through the rendition, group members forgot the words and had to hum their way through about 5 seconds of agony — with a few boos sprinkled in from the crowd.
It wasn’t a shining moment for Seals, who was once part of the hit 1990s band Little Texas.
Then there was the ultimate in stupidity — the fan. His name is Gregory Gall, 31, of Cincinnati. He is accused of resisting arrest, trespassing and disorderly conduct while intoxicated. We hope they throw the book at him.
Bengals spokesman Jack Brennan said security officials determined that he jumped out of the stands onto a cart parked next to a 9-foot-high wall behind the Packers’ bench.
Then he ran onto the field, interrupted play and took the ball from Favre. With security guards in pursuit, he was finally tackled and taken away.
Noting that the fan interference helped break the Packers’ momentum, Bengals coach Marvin Lewis joked Sunday that the team would pay him $20.
That’s not the message that should be getting out to fans. Their place is not on the field and security personnel are going to have to be more vigilant in the future.
We’re excited about this Bengals team and know fans have a lot of pent up emotions after years of futility and false hopes. But there are proper ways to express that excitement and running onto the field is not one.

Source: David Brown: Favre, fan and Seals: All a little scary/11-2
Hot Apple Pie really STUNK up the place, it was the only time we were there was when I could understand the boos from the crowd.