Happy Holidays

I'm really excited for this holiday season, mainly because so many amazing things have happened over the last year which have made me a better person. Here's a short list of things I'm grateful for:

First and foremost is my beautiful wife Kristin, who I think about and smile at every single day. I'm so glad to be married and spend time together.

L-Dawg, aka Lewis. I'm really happy we rescued this little guy from the Humane Society back when he weighed 10 lbs and was 9 weeks old. Now he's nearly 8 months and weighs over 40. He's so smart and goofy at the same time, and just a fantastic addition to our household.

My family. My brother Kris is in town this week and it will be nice to spend Christmas with him and my parents. I really wish he would live closer so we could spend more time together, but I will pledge to do all I can in the time we have together.

My new family, the Lairs. I'm thrilled to have such generous and loving in-laws. I enjoy all the time I spend with them and it's nice to know that they also like having me around.

Work. I love my job. The work we do here makes a lot of difference in this state, country and even over seas. I'm always learning yet having a lot of fun in the process. It's great to be surrounded by such incredibly smart people who can also make total clowns of themselves when necessary.

There are plenty of others such as my friends and acquaintances and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and an exciting New Year.

I'm back!!!

So I took a month long sabbatical and now I'm refreshed. A lot has happened since my last post but I found myself incredibly caught up with both work and school, so there's too much to scribe here for now. Throw in a little holiday action and it's over a month since I've done anything. I will strive to be more diligent.

I finished my corporate finance and managing information technology finals on Wednesday and boarded a red-eye flight to NYC for a surprise b-day bash for Kris.

Kristin, myself, Matt & Jasmine and my parents flew in for a long weekend. Kris was totally surprised when we showed up at lunch for him. It was a great weekend full of tons of touristy action and family shenanigans.

I'm also happy I got to see a couple great friends, Anish and Meg. I told them I'd put pics up so here they are. Congrats to Anish by the way, whose film, "Old Joy," will be shown at Sundance this year. How about getting some information up on IMDB, Anish?

Was fortunate to see a bunch of lunatic Santas strolling through NYC as well for this year's Santacon...

Got to eat some world famous raspberry cheesecake from Junior's as well.

Saw a nice crowd of fans gather at Strawberry Fields in Central Park 25 years to the day that John Lennon was murdered.






Overall, it was an excellent trip, albeit a short one. Check out the sky from 1,050 feet above the NYC streets. That's about it for now. I'm going to be a blogging fiend during this break. I have to keep up with Biggs and his blog, Squaking VFR.