The Holiday funk has set in.  I see no future for me but constant driving and eating.  Wake me up when January gets here.  I have to admit I am looking forward to Thanksgiving though, although I’m trying to shift to a more negative aspect.  No matter how much of a pain it might be, that menu sure sounds good.

I took off work last Thursday and Friday, so I had a nice little four-day weekend.  I’ve got a few extra days of vacation floating around that I need to burn, so I’m sort of throwing random days on the schedule.  Nothing of note to report on though, really.  Friday I rode my motorcycle out to Mom’s house and put it in her garage for the Winter.  I was sad to see it go, although I really don’t ride it much any more.  All the same, I like to see it there in my garage in the morning;  Gives me something to look forward to next Spring.  But, what can ya’ do;  It’ll be snowing before you know it and we need to fit our car in the garage.  We went to the new Mexican Restaurant for lunch while we were out there, which was quite delicious.  Solid menu, we’ll have to go back and try a few other items.  I finally narrowed my choice down to a chile verde burrito, which was quite delicious but there were several other choices calling my name too.  Friday night we popped “300” in the dvd player for some evening entertainment.  I was a little disappointed I must say, but Donette liked it.  Actually I fell asleep pretty early in the movie, so maybe I should give it a second chance.

Saturday I continued the cinematic bonanza with an early morning showing of the under-rated classic, “Cool As Ice.”  Considered by many to be the final undoing of Vanilla Ice, I none the less find it a veritable show-case of his wide ranging talent.  From rapping to dancing to motorcycle riding, he fits it all in this hour and a half train wreck.  It’s a pretty funny movie, and you find yourself constantly wondering “Did I actually like this guy when he came out?  Nahhhhh, surely not.”  After that, I clicked through the channels and came across “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” on one of the HD channels.  This is one of the several movies that I have most likely seen in their entirety, but in 15 minutes pieces and all out of order.  Kind of hard to follow that way, but I still have a bad habit of watching movies in that manner.  I caught it about 10 minutes into the show this time though, so I went ahead and stayed on the same channel.  Good show; highly quotable and a good soundtrack.  Next in the tv-a-thon was the MU football game.  I made it through most of that, but then we had to leave to go to a birthday party.  Oh, and not just any birthday party, a party for a one year old.  Somehow or another I’ve managed to escape going to the “kid parties” my entire life, but as in every other facet of my life, my luck finally ran out.  Ahhhh, it wasn’t bad.  I was saved in no small part by two factors;  1) It was at KC Masterpiece restaurant so there were brisket sandwiches, and 2)  Martin had to go too.  Plus, it did my heart good to know the little birthday girl will always cherish the time her good friend Phil pulled himself away from a day of college football to come to her first birthday party.  (You remember your first birthday, right?)  After that, Martins came over and we engaged in a lively evening of cards and dominoes.

Sunday, well not much to go on there.  We went to Sharp’s for breakfast and laid down a good base of biscuits and gravy.  As it turned out though, we didn’t really need a good base because we didn’t do anything all day.  My Sundays, it would seem, are getting increasingly non-productive.  Other than watching football and reading the paper, I can’t think of a single useful thing I did all day.