Ok, long time no blog....

Well, it's been a long time since I commented on my blog - the 23rd to be exact. I'm back.

I had a great Xmas with the kids. They are with us a few more days before school starts back up again. I hate to see the end of the holidays. I look forward to it all year, anticipate it with great joy and dread the return to work and loss of my kids to the school systems again. Thus is life though.

Xmas was nice. I received a new weather station (in amateur radio, the abbreviation for weather is "wx"). I put it up pretty quickly after receiving it and I now have a PC interface that allows the weather to be transferred over to my PC from the weather station. It is wireless and communicates to the "outside pieces" over RF. I have really enjoyed it. It seems that it tracks the local airport weather very accurately.

If you want to see what our weather looks like at any given time, just go to our family web page and take a look - I added a screen there that updates every 5 minutes via my weather station. I hope you enjoy it.

New Years was fun. We gathered at Don Jr's and all the kids exchanged gifts and we opened our packages from the Lemleys Sr. We even got to talk to them a bit on video camera - ah - ain't technology great! It was really nice to feel a bit closer since they could not come here due to health concerns.

It was great to see WV win the Sugar Bowl - first time they had ever won the Sugar Bowl. Great effort and smart football play all through the game lead them to a great victory over the gators. Well done, WV!

We have seen many good movies this holiday season including "Harry Potter and the whatever it was", Narnia, King Kong (well it was fairly good - impressive in terms of what they can do but very gory), Fun with Dick and Jane (a remake of an old Jane Fonda/George Segal vehicle that was very funny back in the day) and tonight we saw Pride and Prejudice - an excellent movie if you are into "chick flicks" - aka lots of love, lots of crying, lots of romance, lots of emotion. It was really good and well acted. One of the impressive things about the "period" in which this took place was the respect with which men and women greeted each other and with which they conducted themselves in conversation - it was refreshing given the casual and sloppy (even familiar) behavior that occurs between them today when they barely even know one another. We could benefit from a little less familiarity or assumption and a little more polite respect.

Well, gotta turn in for the night. I hope this night finds you peacefully resting in bed and looking forward to the new year. Happy New Year to all of you and may you be healthy and happy all year.

Love - Jerry