2008-ready or not, it's here

Hello everyone. Thanks for the Christmas cards and holiday greetings. Hope you had a nice holiday and got to catch up with friends and family. Many of you received a card from me. I planned to include a photo sheet in the card but when I found out color copies are $2 apiece at Kinko's I nixed that idea. BUT, thanks to technology, I am able to post some of those pictures on a flickr account and you can see them. Click here to see some highlights from my 2007.

Many of you also know that my company has been sold to Houghton Mifflin-Riverdeep. This is still true and we still don't know anything regarding the San Diego office, our jobs, etc. I think things are happening at the higher-up levels right now, but I don't expect to be affected by things until February or March. I'm off to Philadelphia this week for the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting. It's going to be cold. After that, I'm going direct to Maine. Steve does Christmas with his family in January ever since he moved to CA. He'll be there when I get there, and we'll stay another four or so days. It's going to be cold.

Right before New Year's, David and Allison visited. They flew into LA and stayed with Mom and Dad a few days before we met them at the half-way point, San Juan Capistrano. Picked them up and spent the day at the zoo and Coronado beach. It's fantastic when one can go to the beach in December.

Christmas in LA was spent cooking and eating. Steve and I went up armed with our Wii and recipes. We made tamales for Christmas Eve, a very complicated chocolate panna cotta cake, and rack of lamb for Christmas dinner. Everything was a group effort. We all helped make everything, and everything tasted great.

I've also spent *a lot* of time playing Word Whomp (www.pogo.com) thanks to Allison and my mom. I'm so addicted. And now you will be, too. Hahahahahahaha!