Lying on the sofa...

Thanks to the generosity of my father-in-law and step-mother-in-law, I am lying on the sofa, watching the Steelers, and blogging. Yup, the Xmas laptop - one of the best presents you can receive if you are lazy and old like me.

I can't believe that the Eagles beat the world-champion Giants, but for the sake of my friends Toly and Queen Bee, I'm glad. Of course, as a long-time Jets fan, I'm still reeling from the self-destruction my team went through the last seven weeks of the regular season.

We had an excellent weekend, spending the beginning of it (thursday night and friday) up north with my sister, brother-in-law, and niece. We had some great pizza and a couple heated nerf dart-gun battles. The dart guns changed my life, and I now own two of my own. I'll attach a sweet picture of me using them to get out of a sticky situation here on this blog entry.
I didn't accomplish much of anything else this weekend. I was out of commission more or less yesterday afternoon/evening due to a big bowl of bean soup I ate for lunch. It was tasty, but it wrecked havoc with me later. Sunday I had some work to do for the scholarship committee I chair, so I did that. Actually, it was my final act for the committee as I decided to step down. It's an inconvenience and we are doing it for an organization that really doesn't appreciate us. They've cut our funding the past couple years to the point where we haven't been able to give away our local thousand-dollar scholarship. We have simply acted as middlemen for the National scholarship - evaluating the applications and then passing them on to the next level of judging. No fun there.

Sweet! Just saw a Watchman trailer during commercials. I'll tell you - I'm glad the world has finally caught up to me and realizes how cool Alan Moore's graphic novel is. I remember reading the individual issues as they came out in '86. As always, my friends and I were ahead of the curve.

Well, since I'm rambling and not really saying anything of interest, I'll sign off. Gotta go lend my support to the Steelers.