So, one of the things I bought as an impulse buy on black friday was a Wii.  I was in Target and they had a big stack of them, so I bought one.  Kept it hidden away and put it under the Christmas tree as a family present.

Emily thinks it's awesome.  We only have 3 games for it so far... Wii Sports, Wee Party Games (air hockey, darts, skee ball, hoops).. and Sonic & the Magic Rings or something.  Plus all the gamecube games, nice that it supports those.

I have to admit, it is kinda fun =)

I hoe you all had a Merry Christmas!

So I stopped at Em-R-Wings tonight to pick up some BBQ wings, and I overheard two amusing things.  I may have to paraphrase cuz it was a couple hours ago.  I was standing at the bar waiting for them to finish my carryout order...

First, the folks at the bar are discussing the band Journey.  One of them said that he liked Journey with their original singer.  Makes sense to me... then he says "But then Steve Perry came along."

What?  Damn, I didn't even know Journey had an original lead singer BEFORE Steve Perry.  I thought Steve Perry *WAS* the original singer, but anyway apparently I was wrong.  How about that.

Second, I hear them talking about Christmas and religion, and one of them says, talking about something but I'm not sure what ... "And they made it all religious" and another one says "Well, you gotta expect all that religious crap at Christmas time."

Hah.  Admittedly, the Christians did kinda take over Christmas from the pagans but still, I thought it was kinda funny.  Christmas *IS* a religious holiday and really only became the retail giant that it is maybe in the last 50 years.

I finally got it set up.  Loaded the class list and everything.

Visit the new Saline High School Class of 1990 Web Site!

Lately I've been doing a lot of freelance work for my friend Brad, who started a web site called ClassCreator.  It's a site that lets you easily build a class web site, and includes tools for planning a class reunion.

We see stuff like this all the time...

I just want to say "Thank You" to the creators and whomever runs this site. We set ours up in September and our classmates love it. Our 40 yr reunion won't be until next September (09) but our website has created so much interest. They are uploading photos and using the message forum almost daily.

Don't rely on other classmate sites that give you very little control, and build a site with www.classcreator.com for your class! 

It's so easy, a caveman could do it!

Last weekend, Emily participated in the RSA's Reindeer Meet.  She swam 50 yard events for freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterlfy.   She set personal bests in backstroke (1:05.76, an improvement of 1.53 seconds) and freestyle (0:59.49, an improvement of 9.51 seconds).  She got DQed again in both butterfly and breast stroke, but she's looking better.  I don't yet know the reasons for the DQs but I suspect it had something to do with her kicks.  It definately wasn't the two-hand touch this time.

We're very proud of her!