MERRY CHRISTMAS

A lot of random Christmas Eve thoughts. I have one of my few days off from work today.

Here's a shocker. I have some last minute Christmas shopping to do. Poncho and I are going to a few stores.

After shopping, I'm planting my ass on the couch to watch the Vikings/Packers game. Emily even bought beer, diet Lemondae, and salty snacks for the game. I think even she knows this is a bigger than usual border battle. Normally I would watch this game guilt-free but I am actively trying to phase pro and college sports out of my life. I am trying to enforce a rule that I will watch football when it's a social event and the Spurs whenever I get a chance. Maybe that will start in 2005.

It's cold. So very cold. I have a hard time letting go of the fact that there are so many homeless people in the Twin Cities freezing right now. It makes me so very grateful to have a warm home, but I have yet to spring to action to help these other people, other than a donation here and there. Maybe that too can change in 2005.

And I was at my friend's last night watching the Spurs destroy the Timberwolves. He has Tevo so we watched the game after it started and skipped all the commercials and halftime. We were done watching in under 100 minutes. It was pretty awesome.

If we had Tevo, then I could justify watching sports because the time-commitment would be halved. BUT, if I just stop watching sports, then the time commitment would be eliminated.

Merry Christmas to Emily, my mom, my dad, sisters, their husbands, and my friends.