Play Station Network?

I just played a game on our Play Station 4 (is it Play Station or Playstation?) and the network did not respond. According to Google News it was supposed to be back up an hour ago. What’s going on? What kinda nut would want to hack a game network? What’s the point of that? Where’s the gain?

The Macallen

My brother and my brother in law partook of the Macallen Christmas night. On Christmas Eve my wife and my father in law did as well. They all approved.

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As for me?

One sip, followed by one major whiskey face, followed by a lifetime of continued tea totaling. Sorry, folks. Robbie still don’t drink.

Christmas Through the Years

2007
Christmas 2007 - Our Tree at Jen's Apartment in Salem, NH

2008
December 12th and 13th, 2008 - Christmas Decorations 011

2009
2009-12-24 and 25 - Christmas 001

2010
2010-12-24&25 Christmas 003

2011
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Owl has been the highest ornament on every tree since 1977.
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2012
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And Owl too.
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2013
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And Owl too.
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2014
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And Owl too.
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Eight years worth of trees from three houses. One for each year that my wife and I have been together. I cannot tell you how lucky I am that she and her kids have let me be a part of their family. No one is more blessed than I.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all of those out there in internet land who celebrate. HoHoHo!

Santa came last night and did he ever leave a pile of loot!

The kids seem happy, which is the whole point of the holiday as far as I am concerned. I was a little nervous about my gift selections for my beautiful wife Jen. We set a pretty meager spending limit for each other and I went WAAAAY over it. She made it sound like she cut back on gifts for me and I was feeling pretty bad about the mountain I got for her.

Fortunately she like what I gave her. Even the ones that were out of the blue stabs at random guesses. She found the jokes to be funny, which is also a plus. As for me… she most definitely did not cut back on me! She totally faked me out! I got a new camera lens! WOOOOHOOOOO!!!! I also got an MXR Uni-vibe pedal which brings me one step closer to actually morphing into Jimi Hendrix. Awesome! There is also a wicked cool pedal board for my growing pile of stomp boxes, and a great new camera bag because now that I own three (3!!) lenses the bag I have is kinda too small. All in all I made out like a bandit! Santa Rules!

I hope all of you who read this also made out like bandits, and I hope that the things that are most important to you on this Christmas day work out just the way you hoped they would. Just like the gifts we got for the kids did, and the necklace and coach bag I got for Jenny did. hehe

HoHoHo! Merry Christmas!