Well it’s the first snow of the season. I’m so happy. No, really I am. I love snow so much. The way it covers the ground like a big white blanket. How it drifts down like a feather. Oh! and the way people drive during snow is such a good time. go slow on dry pavement, stop for a slight wind gust. Slam on the brakes because they broke over 15 MPH in a 35 zone. Its good times for all. Really.

I’m looking forward to driving on the freeway today on my way home from work. Just imagine, bumper to bumper traffic. Not because of a wreak or a broken down car. No, that would make since. It will be this way because the cotton head at the front of the congestion forgot that the sweeper bags for her vacuum when she was at the grocery and damn-it! she is going to need them next week when she uses her last bag.

God help me not kill someone on my way home. I really hate winter time. It sucks such donkey balls.

What would you do for a new game system? Would you stand in line for hours on end? Would you battle an tiger, head on for the chance to have it? What about selling your soul to the devil? Well last night people started to do just these things. Not really, but they did start to line up at the local bestbuy to have the chance to be the very first in the city to own a Microsoft Xbox 360.

Having a custom 3 core IBM PowerPC processor, it is said to have a total speed of 9.6 Ghz. A graphics system that makes watching a game like watching TV. And enough crap built in to replace your PC.

One thing that I was surprised to find that it will play the older Xbox games. But, you must have the separate harddrive to make it work. I guess I will be keeping my Xbox for a longer time now. I really hate that you have to have the the harddrive. Why not just make it work without. Oh, wait, I forgot this is Mirco$oft were talking about.

I think I may end up waiting for the new Playstation 3. It is backwards compatible out of the box with all my games I already have. The online is supposed to still be free. Unlike Xbox Live. Plus, I’m really tired of being nickeled and dimmed by the big M$.

Ok kids, go stand in line so you can say I was the first. Or just wait a week after thanksgiving and buy one without the wait. Or even better wait till next year when PS3 comes out and the price of the 360 will drop. But then you wouldn’t have been the first on the block.

With the Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa holidays forthcoming, there is sense of spirit in the air. You can see that people are being nicer. No longer are they cutting you off at the left hand turn. Stopped has the bums yelling at you for spare change so they can purchase the oh so needed elixir of life, whiskey. Even I can feel the holiday spirit. No longer do I kick small furry animals on my way into work, or steal the candy from a babies hand. Instead, I have been reaching down and patting the creature on its head and giving the child a sucker.

So when a friend of mine called Saturday to ask if he and his lovely wife could deliver The Boy an early christmas present I was warmed. Of course you can, I said.

What he brought was a advent calendar. But this isn’t one of those crappy advent calendars where you get a chalky piece of chocolate. This one is a Lego advent calendar. How kick ass is that! Every little door has a small amount of Lego pieces in it. One could have a guys head and some blocks, others could have the rest of the Lego guys body. One can never tell the mysteries behind each door. Total pieces in the calendar is something like 240.

The Boy was so excited he wanted to open each and every door. He has been asking when the fat man will drop from the chimney. Well now he will be able to count the days come December first.

Don’t you love the feeling of completing a project. I sure do. The Wife has been on a rampage lately to get the house cleaned and de-cluttered so we can get it on the market as soon as possible. This weekend she scrubbed the hell out of the bathroom and bedrooms while i sat on my big fat ass. Well not the whole weekend. I did fix the bath faucet. Well almost anyway.

Today when i went to change the leaky faucet in the bath room. It should have been a simple turn off the water, take apart the faucet, replace parts, and reassemble. But of course this is me were talking about. It would never be that simple. Why? Because Murphy is a bitch punk ass and his laws follow me everywhere.

When I went to take apart the faucet the whole thing twisted off into my hand. Talk about a bad day in the making. All i could see in my future is tearing out the bath room wall to replace this thing. You know they never make this stuff easy. It keep the plumbers in business. Well lucky for me there is a little door in the closest of my sons room. I tell him that is where i put bad little boys when they are bad.

Well inside this door is luckily enough the workings of my shower so the repair wasn’t that bad. What was bad is the measure once and cut five million times. And the oops if i would have read the instructions i would have done it right part. Oh, and the six trips to The Home Depot. Those were always fun, the people started to ask if we would like have a personal shopper. It really sucked.

But at the end of the day it was done. Done incorrectly but done. Thanks to my father for coming over in a moments notice to help with the moral support. I don’t think i would have done it so well with out him. I would have probably went the tearing out the wall route.

Ok time to get my stinky ass in the shower. Thanks for stopping buy!

I don’t smoke. I did, but i quit about 9 years ago. I did it not because I was bugged by people or of the fear of health problems. I did it because I became tired of being tired in the morning. Coughing until it hurt and being sick all the time. No other reasons than those. I quit the good way also, cold freaking turkey. No patch, gum, or inhaler. If your gonna quit just quit. The other ways are for cheaters who are not strong enough with them self’s to say, I am going to quit, today is the day.

I don’t care if you smoke. In fact if you do smoke good for you. Your a person that throws caution to the wind, that looks death in the face and says: Screw you death, cough cough. I would really like more people to smoke. They die earlier, meaning they spend less on health care leaving more for me and the others that don’t smoke. I don’t even mind going to places that welcome smokers. I even sit in the smoking section at restaurants when they are busy. I do that because I hate to wait and really the smell doesn’t bother me.

But when the ohio government wants to send a ballot to the voters to ban smoking in every single public place. Be it bar, restaurant, hotel, park, everywhere. It really pisses me off. Who the hell are they to tell me (if I smoked) where I can go to eat or drink, or even where I can work. If I get a job at a bar I am automatically going to know that people are smoking there. It’s a bar damn-it!

Same thing goes to all the whiney bitches out there that complain about smoking kills. “If I want to go to a bar I should have to breathe second hand smoke.” And your right, you shouldn’t have to breathe second hand smoke. But there are other places out there that are non-smoking establishments. You can get a meal with out have to worry that you might drop dead at any given moment because someone lights up. Some palaces even go as far as putting in a smoke eater that collects the particles and put out air so clean that you could build a computer hard drive in it.

But is this good enough for the bleeding hearts? Hell know! Why don’t we force parents to make their kid wear helmets in the car. Yeah in the car. You must make Jr. wear a bike helmet because what if you make a sudden stop and that cigarette lighter comes flying out of your purse or pocket. Hurtling through the air and smacks him in the head, giving him a permanent speech impediment. Keep your eyes open folks, its bound to happen.