Recession and elipses

It has been almost 7 months now since I last wrote and 11 months on Weight Watchers. My weight is down a total of about 60 lbs. Actually it has been in that area for about 4 months now. I am just trying to survive the holidays - first the Jewish ones, then Thanksgiving (which let's just admit is just an American version of Sukkot) then all this latke stuff coming up and the candy everywhere...

On the home front things are good. I need to get a bunch of things fixed aroudn the house, like the leak from my shower, the gutters and I figure the roof over the den is going to need some work soon. The boy is studying for his Bar Mitzvah, at least when we remind him to. La Nina is fencing away and pissing off her madre at every turn. Having a teenager is fun. Having a teenager is fun. Having a teenager is fun. Just keep repeating that....

Work is... well let's just say there is a lot of it. Management realized that open source is saving them a shitload of money so they other music clubs are shutting down since they have to pay these ridiculous fees for Microsoft or Oracle or whatever Java application server they are running upon. Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl. LAMP. Repeat after me. LAMP.

I have been told my job is quite secure. I have been told a bunch of other things, but they are confidential after all, so I shan't repeat them here. This does sometimes feel like "Dear Diary", but it is public, isn't it?

Wayne and Laura got married a couple of weeks ago. I know this because I performed the ceremony as minister. My first since I was ordained - woohoo! Laura is great - everything one could want in a sister-in-law. She is witty and joyous and most of all she makes my brother happy. It was great to see his boys too. Wayne, if you are reading this, always remember: I may have had a lot to drink, but you are the one who left your wedding cake at the valet parking station! After all, I'm not the one who poured the Scotch. or the Wine, or the other scotch, or maybe it was the Tequila...

An interesting call from the wife from Hong Kong a few weeks ago the she couldn't get on her flight home because her passport was missing made for an interesting day. Fortunately she was able to get all of the paperwork done at the consulate quickly so she came home later the same day.

That pretty much hits the recent highlights. Winter is here early with 3" of snow over the weeken din Huntington - we seem to hae been the high water (snow) level for this one which suited Laura just fine as she had only seen snow like this once before and that was when she was a little girl. Matt and Jenn got a house and a cute new Dachund puppy and we all had breakfast with them on Sunday. Too much eating this weekend. time to go back to concentrating on the diet.