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Today at the gym there were 2 or 3 guys that were wearing knit beanies, the type you wear in the winter time up north. Now I know I have seen pictures of serious bodybuilder types in muscle mags wearing these. I have never been able to comprehend the benefit. I could understand if it was 20 degrees outside and you wanted to try to warm up quickly. But hell, it’s 78 degrees outside, what’s with the beanie? I can only assume these individuals think it somehow enhances their appearance in the gym, maybe making them seem more hard core or intense. The one guy went as far as having his sunglasses on his head with the arms poked through the beanie. Silly.

We are now in the absolute worst time as far as “seasonal visitors” (snowbirds) goes. Traffic is a mess, even more so than normal and it is filled with blue hairs that are in the bottom percentile of driving ability. It is maddening driving the streets. I find myself more or less cursing at one individual after another, without even thinking about it. I would like to be able to calm down a bit. Why can’t these f’rs realize that some people on the road actually have places they have to be on a schedule…

The Stern Show has been great since he moved to Sirius this week. It’s brought tears of laughter to my eyes more than once.

My personal army of WoW characters is getting rather large. Here is the list of my current characters along with my thoughts on each. Those of you that could care less about WoW, move along. Fellow WoW addicts, read on.

My original and highest ranking character is Fragu. He is a a level 60 (highest level in the game currently) warrior. A warrior’s role in the game is to be in the front of most battles, taking damage and keeping the attention of enemies so other party members can attack without being attacked. Being my first character, I have a fond place in my heart for him, however I really don’t enjoy playing with him that much. Of all my characters, I have the hardest time playing well with him. In PvP (player vs player) fighting I usually lose badly. Part of this is because my armor is very poor in comparison to most so I can be hammered rather easily by other players sporting an arsenal from running endless high end instances. Fragu spends most of his time logged off, only being called upong to run lower level characters through instances from time to time.

Duf was my second character, he is a level 56 warlock. For my 2nd character I wanted to pick something as opposite from a warrior as possible. A warlock specializes in DOT spells (damage over time) He also has the ability to control a demon which acts like a hunters pet. The warlock has a huge array of spells, curses and abilities to choose from, almost too much. I can PvP much better with the warlock than the warrior because the warlocks spells have range that allows me more time to execute my attack. But like Fragu, he has seen little light of day recently.

Fatherduf is a level 50 priest. More specifically he is a shadow priest. A priest, although seemingly an innocent sounding class, can actaully be one of the deadliest because of their strong shadow magic and healing abilities. I like Fatherduf and being a priest automatically ensures lots of people needing you to run instances since you always need a healer. I am not bad PvPing with him, but again my lack of lighting quick button mashing ability holds me back from being great with him.

Darkduf is a 46 rogue. I made him in response to getting ganked endlessly by horde rogues while leveling my other characters. Rogues have the ability to be invisible to the enemy until they attack plus they have a bunch of stun moves that basically freezes his enemy in place, unable to respond till two thirds of his health is gone. I made DD because I wanted to inflict the same torment on the horde as they have done to me. I enjoy playing him probably the most of all my characters because most battles are on my terms. I sneak up on someone in a compromising situation and just wipe them out. If someone tries to jump me, I have a number of methods to escape their attack and simply /lol them. I spend a lot of time with him just roaming areas where horde reside, picking them off at will. I love the paranoia I can create in the enemy. Once they know a rogue is around they are constantly looking for him, knowing he is lurking. Rogues do big damage but also have light armor, so if my ambush fails, a good player can counter and take me down. I PvP with Darkduf better than any other character.

Finally I have my 24 druid, Rombler who is actually the account of a buddy at work who gave up on WoW. A druid is a jack of all trades. He can cast ranged magic, he can heal, he can turn into a bear form which emulates a warrior, turn into a cat that attacks like a rogue or even turn into a cheetah that allows him to run much faster than normal. The catch is while he can do all these things, he can’t do any single thing as well as a class that specializes in it. That being said, I really am enjoying playing with him. There is no getting bored with play style with a druid since he can do so many things. At higher levels, most druids are expected to specialize in healing and do little more than that. I will buck the trend and develop Rombler to be a solo powerhouse.

My WoW collection of characters is quite large, larger than I would have ever expected. Having multiple characters gives you the ability to cross-support each other by having different characters have different professions that support each other. There are 3 or 4 classes I do not have and if I went through those, I could start all over on the horde side and learn that side of things. However I have vowed never to play on the horde side out of principal. My point is if you explore all of the possibilites available to you within the game, it truly offers near endless variety.

Get the game.

Ali has set an ambitious goal for us to be able to run a half marathon by next year. As part of the plan to do this, we have been trying to get in 1 or 2 runs in during the week in addition to our weekend runs. So what this means is a few days a week I do weight work at the gym over lunch and then run a half hour after work. So far it has been working out ok although the fear of having something breakdown from such a schedule is always in a corner of my mind. I have NEVER run more than 5 and a half miles in my life and that was with 2 good knees.

I have packed my lunch and taken it to work for 15 years or more, starting way back to when I was driving truck for Goodwill. It’s funny how my lunch has transformed over the years. When I was younger I gave absoultely zero thought to what I shoved in my mouth. At Goodwill I would normally have a mid-morning snack of chocolate milk and tastycake blueberry pie, probably a 600-700 calorie snack. Then I would have my lunch on top of it. My lunch at that time had some variety with the sandwich portion of it, normally being some sort of lunch meat. The rest of the lunch included yogurt, milk and maybe a half a dozen double stuff oreos. Later the sandwich portion of the lunch became standardized as PBJ with TONS of jelly and very little peanut butter.

I started to clean up my lunch slowly over the years. I swapped out the half dozen double stuff’s for a half dozen of the low fat oreos. Then I cut down from 6 oreos to 4. That lunch configuration was standard for a long time. However in the last few years it mutated further. I cut the jelly out of the PBJ, realizing the jelly was nothing but empty calories, I loaded up on the PB (more protein). I went from big pieces of italian white bread to wheat bread, then to low carb wheat bread (smaller slices) The oreos were phased out and are now replaced by a zone bar with 16 grams of protein. The most recent change swapped out the yogurt for those cottage cheese/fruit combos that offer more protein and half the sugar of yogurt. The only thing that has remained constant in the lunch is about a pint of skim milk. Instead of chocolate milk and tastycakes, I have a cup of coffee in the morning and a protein shake in the afternoon. It was tough to give up the junk food staples that I enjoyed, however now I find I enjoy the healthier choices nearly as much.

To Ali’s dismay, I excitedly tuned the satellite radio to hear Howard’s first day. It was great to hear him again after 9 or 10 months of listening to the local “talent”. Howard sounds the same, Artie was going overboard with all the swearing and everyone else sounded the same with an occasional shit or f dropped in there. I cringed as Artie carried on, feeling Ali’s disdain weighing on my back like a 50 pound weight. Oh well, if it gets crazy I can flip over to music for a bit. I actually brought my wireless headphones into work so I could listen without offending others if need be. However right now I am listening to him over the speakers, hopefully low enough that it doesn’t carry out into the hallway. It feels good to hear Howard.

It got real cold (for Florida) this weekend. When I got up Saturday morning the thermometer read 42 degrees, when I got up Sunday morning it was 38! It was actually cold enough that there was frost on the ground. Thankfully Ali went around on Friday and covered up sensitive plants to protect them. It was an odd feeling walking Nicki with the frozen grass crackling under my flip flops. In a weird way it was nice, if for only a few hours to feel a semblance of winter. By mid day it was close to 70.

We got a bunch of restaurant giftcards for Christmas and decided to use one Saturday night. We were hesitant to do so because we are now in the heart of snowbird season but invited my mom to come along and chanced it. Well it was as bas as we imagined. We went to PF Changs and were not happy to get a quote of 90-100 minutes wait. We put our names in anyway and I said I would go down the parking lot to see if the wait was any better at Romano’s, only slightly better, a 1:15 wait. So we decided to stay put at PF Changs, I confidently said that they always over estimate the wait time. Haha. Well an hour forty five and 60 bucks in alcohol later, we finally got seated. Never again will I go to a restaurant during prime eating hours, during season, that was ridiculous.

I played a lot of WoW this weekend, a whole lot. I have been working some different characters which has sucked me into playing much more in the past month or so.

A nasty cold front is blowing through today for the weekend. Keep an eye out on the weather at the Duffey homestead, the temp could drop into the 30’s!

Yesterday in the mail I got an envelope from the pool cage company that came out to give an estimate. I was anxiously awaiting to see the number so I could have an idea of how heavy the hit will be. Woah… the estimate came in at just over 17 grand. That is more than the total estimate I got from Allstate for ALL the damage which included replacing the water equipment, pool cover and temporary fencing costs. If I went ahead with the repairs right now, going with that estimate and not pursuing any further reimbursment, my out of pocket would approach 10k. So I contacted the insurance company for a supplemental claim and I can only hope that FEMA comes through with a few bucks.

After work Ali and I did a training run. Ali has been reading a book on women’s running and in it it recommends doing training runs 2-3 times a week of a half hour or so. So we ran around Ali’s work for a half hour. Ali kept a very strong pace, just a hair slower than what she ran at our last race. Her pace is now good enough that I have to work much more to keep stride. I’m really proud of her progress.

Last night I was up way late playing WoW, close to midnight. I started a new character on a different server to play with Charlie, since he jumped over there with some co-workers of his. Needless to say I was a bit tired this morning. I did all my morning chores and then poured myself a bowl of shredded wheat. I sat down in front of my computer to read my overnight email and realized that I put a fork in my cereal bowl….

While I was waiting at the dentist I was flipping through a car magazine. I came across pictures of Dodge’s latest retro entry the 2009 Dodge Challenger. Damn this thing looks bad ass. I love the looks of these brand new versions of the classic muscle cars I longed after in my youth.

Happy 2006! My 2006 New Years celebration was rather mild. On New Years eve we watched the 40 year old Virgin and I watched Minority Report for the second time. 40 year old Virgin was very funny, dirty but funny. Ali didn’t appreciate all the boobs in plain sight but she got over it. We had considered maybe going to the casino for New Years Eve but decided against it because Ali was feeling a bit sick and we didn’t want to fight the crowds. We didn’t make any big plans because we were doing a 5k run at 7:30 am New Years day. Minority Report got done at 5 till midnight, just in time to switch over to see Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin eve. Dick hasn’t been seen in public since his stroke last year. Even though he had a stroke, I expected Dick to be more or less back to normal, he’s Dick Clark, the guy that never gets old. Woah, was I ever disturbed by what I saw and heard. Dick could hardly talk and when he was on camera you could tell he had dead areas on his face. Ali thought it was admirable that he did it, which I guess it was, but it doesn’t change the pity and remorse I felt seeing a staple in American entertainment struggle so much to just speak. It really made me sad. It won’t be the same with Ryan Seacrest hosting the show in years to come. During the broadcast he referred to Dick as Dick Carey, mixing up names with Mariah Carey, whom he was interviewing. Damn she is a big moose now, she used to be a cute little thing.

So even with staying home, we didn’t fall asleep till after 12:30 am. We reluctantly pulled ourselves out of bed at 5:30 to get ready. Ali still was feeling somewhat ill and now it was compounded with extreme tiredness. This race was more or less casual. Only hardcore people are crazy enough to do this. They had the timer going but they didn’t hand out awards or keep individual times. It was more of a fun run. We were excited to use Ali’s GPS watch but we were pissed to see it had next to no battery charge left. Evidently I left it on after downloading it’s data like a dumb ass. We only got the first half mile in before it totally died. The pace was quick and we settled in with a few people for pretty much all of the run. Two older guys were carrying on a conversation for the majority of the run which I knew had to be annoying the hell out of Ali. Even though Ali was tired and sick, she kept the strong pace up for pretty much the entire run. When we hit the home stretch we saw the timer at 29:10, holy s, we could do a sub-30! Ali got a burst of energy and we accelerated towards the finish, clicking it at 29:42, her first sub-30 5k! It really is amazing how much improvement she has shown in a short period of time. It was funny, by 9am Sunday we were back home. Ali took a shower and went back to bed, she was wiped.

While Ali slept I did stuff around the house. I took down the Christmas tree but left the outside lights up because we like how they look, We figured I can keep them up another week or so yet without appearing too lazy. Normally I drag the tree over to the ditch and toss it in to wither, turn brown and die. This year I decided to try to perform an xmas tree miracle. I made a fresh cut on the bottom, trimmed some more branches off and threw it in a big pot with fertile soil, evergreen food and lots of water. Even though I know it is pretty much impossible to root a cut Christmas tree, I figure at the least I can keep it alive for a bit longer. It still was basically green and took very little water inside the house so I decided to give it a go. Yea it’s dumb but somehow I felt compelled to do so. I wanted to save our Christmas bush. I’ll try to water it daily and see how long it sticks around.

We finally saw Napoleon Dynamite. Now we know where all the Vote for Pedro stuff is about. It was funnier than I thought it would be. It basically had the most minimal plot you can imagine and instead focused on the incredibly wacked characters. You have to see it to believe it. Ali read somewhere that the guy that played Napoleon was paid a thousand dollars for the film. It made 40 million, doh!

Our neighbors asked us if we wanted to go out on the casino boat on Monday. We always wanted to do it so we agreed. Our only concern was we would have to leave Nicki alone for 9 hours and we were afraid of an excrement accident waiting for us. The ship leaves out of Fort Myers beach which took us about an hour to get to. The ship was big, bigger than I expected. The reason this appealed to me was because they had table games, something the casino by our house does not have. You basically sail out to international waters and park it for 4 hours, gamble and then tool back in. On the way out we had a brunch buffet and then they had bingo on the top deck to entertain you until the hard core gambling started.

It was funny how the old people camped on certain slot machines before the big moment, staking their spot like a parade watcher with lawn chairs. Then all at once, all the machines come on. I left Ali upstairs to play a progressive slot and I went downstairs to play blackjack. The smallest stakes were 10 dollar tables which sorta sucked but I plopped myself down and had at it. I had some early luck and turned my 80 bucks into 145, however I hit a real long streak of bad luck, it seemed I was dealt 12 to 15 for every hand. I busted my 80 bucks and went up dejectedly to Ali. However just as I came up she was cashing out 560 credits, she hit it pretty big which offset my loss. We had lots of time out at sea yet so I went back down to try again. This time I did much better and finshed up 45 bucks ahead. I stopped and Ali and I tried some video poker which was a money vacuum. After blowing 30 bucks, I convinced Ali to give blackjack a try. She watched me play enough to have a general feel. We sat down at a table by ourselves with Ali playing and me coaching. It was cool cause the dealer would help her as well. Early on she wanted to do some dumb moves like hitting on a 14 when the dealer is showing a 4 or 5. However she soon had most basic concepts down. However we started with 100 bucks and had another bad run. On one hand the dealer had a 7 card 21. We were down to three 5 dollar chips. Then all of a sudden her luck changed and in the span of 5 minutes she was back to even. Her luck continued and at one point we were up over 200 bucks. At the end she had a mini-losing streak but we still walked away with 145 bucks. Ali really got into it and by the time we were done she understood why I preferred table games so heavily over slots. Despite my early blackjack losses and the slot setbacks, we were just about even for the day. We were far better off than our neighbors who took a bath playing nothing but slots all day. It was a good time for sure and has been added to the activity lists for any guests that we have that enjoy gambling. Even if you don’t want to gamble, you could just eat, drink at the bar and hang out on the top deck catching some rays.

On New Years Day morning, after we got back from the run, I got an unexpected call from a guy from FEMA, saying he was in our area and wanted to come out to inspect our damage. The call took me off guard as I wasn’t expecting it. After I originally submitted my application to FEMA months ago, I got a letter back saying we didn’t qualify but we could submit again once our insurance claim was processed. A few weeks ago I faxed in the itemized insurance claim to them but did not hear a peep since then. I figured we still didn’t qualify. So anyway, the guy came out, looked around for 5 minutes and was done. I asked why he was working New Years day. He said he was from out of the area and had nothing else to do so he decided to work. Odd to me but it was cool to at least have a shot at getting some FEMA money to chop into that big hurricane deductible we have.

So the 2 or 3 week holiday short week experience ends this week. Even with the blues I felt throughout, it was a positiive time period overall.

Each year seems to go quicker than the last as I age. I guess after close to 40 of em, they start to become a blur. Before I recapped my 2005 experience I wanted to see how I did with my goals for 04 posted on last year’s end of year entry.

Let’s see…..

Go an another cruise – nope, didn’t get it done but did tons of other traveling to make up for it.

Complete Nicki’s dog run – completed and turned out better than imagined

Less time laboring – my weekends are definitely more laid back than in recent years

Ali working PT – Ali now works 4 day weeks, we have been able to make the transition without hardly noticing the financial impact

Decision on having kids – Nope, no closer to making a definitive choice, that is a tough one.

So all in all I did a decent job of hitting my 05 goals. 2005 had lots of stuff going on, both good and bad.

One of the biggest events of the year was of course Hurricane Wilma hitting Collier County, the first direct hit our county had in over 40 years. I watched out the back window as our pool cage was knocked down like a deck of cards from the relentless wind. Being in the middle of a hurricane was a bit scarier than I imagined. I’ll never forget the sound of it all. We lost power for 4 and a half days. Those days were highlighted by my efforts to maximize our comfort level during uncomfortable times. The recovery process in our area went very well, much better than expected. Today you can barely tell a hurricane roared through 2 and a half months ago. However getting someone to come out to fix any hurricane related damage is a frustrating challenge.

05 was the most miserable I ever experienced in regards to traffic. The morning traffic situation in my area degraded to the point where many days it could take 90 minutes plus to go 23 miles. It was true drudgery having to blitz through getting ready every morning, knowing that every minute we left after 6:30 am could multiply into many more minutes of sitting in traffic. Thankfully the opening of an additional lane of traffic in the congested area late this year has stemmed the tide and made our commutes much more bearable.

This past year we continue to watch with amazement as the real estate market in SW Florida continues to explode with almost comical property value increases. Our house has approximately tripled in value since we bought it in 2001. The 2 pieces of land we bought as investments have more than doubled in value in 14 months. It makes us look like we are real estate geniuses when in fact we just got very lucky with our timing.

We did more travelling this year than ever before. Partially because we had the timeshare and partially just because Ali said we don’t go anywhere. This year we went to Key West, Las Vegas, Palm Springs and South Beach. Travelling is more feasible now because our new neighbors are able to watch Nicki which is a god send. It was great to be able to travel so much. Hopefully the trend continues.

Speaking of neighbors, we lost our long time neighbors, Dee and Paula as they sold and moved up closer to the Tampa area. Like many others, they cashed out on the huge equity gains and were able to put themselves in a better financial situation by moving to a less expensive area. However we have become good friends with our new neighbors, Rick and Doug, on the other side of our house. It is awesome to have neighbors that are cool. Sorry Jack, you aren’t on that list.

I am still wearing my invisalign braces (the tops) My bottom teeth are finally done but I have months to go on the top yet. This has taken way longer than we were originally told, however they are working, albeit slowly. Ali is done with her treatment plan. I look forward to being able to smile without having to think about my top teeth looking like Billy Bob. By this time next year I should be braces free.

I played less volleyball in 2005 than in 04 but not because of a physical limitation. Basically I was spending a ton of dough driving all over the state so I wanted to cut back. We had dramatically less success this year on the court this year than in 04. I attribute most of it to the main tour that we play on switching to rally scoring. Rally scoring totally f’s up my game by making me less aggressive. Oh well I still had fun playing.

Supplementing volleyball as my major athletic activity, running has become more of a focus in 05. Years ago when I lived in PA, I ran once a week and had worked myself up to being able to do as much as 5 and a half miles. My goal was to run a 10k at some point but before I could accomplish the goal, my bad knee flared up and I shelved running. However since my knee has been more or less healthy for the last couple years I was ready to give it a go. Earlier in the year, I suggested to Ali we start running together on Sundays. At first, Ali couldn’t even do a mile without stopping. She has made remarkable improvements since then and now we have run four or five 5k races and one 4 mile race. Ali is really into running now, she actively pursues finding races for us to run in. It is really cool to see her into it like that. It is even better that we can do this together. She has made steady improvement in her times. Last night we ran a mile and a half at a 9:20 pace. Her immediate goal is to run a sub-30 minute 5k. Long term I would love for us to be able to do a 10k. Running is great mental and physical exercise.

Speaking of exercise, this year has been a good one as far as my aches and pains have been. Drink your flaxseed oil. The chronic wrist problems I was having have subsided and my strength levels at the gym in many areas are as good if not better than they have ever been. I can only cross my fingers that it continues. I am still hitting the gym 4-5 times a week.

My personal hobbies in 05 were dominated by the discovery of World of Warcraft. This game has dwarfed all my other hobbies. I flew my planes maybe a half dozen times all year. I have no desire to buy another “fun” car. To gain an idea of how much WoW has become entrenched in my leisure activities, all you have to do is a search on my blog on how many entries refer to it. I knew of Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Games for years but always dismissed them as something for Dungeon and Dragon geeks. I considered them boring and I scoffed at the ridiculousness of people paying a monthly fee to play a game. Even so, in January I got around to installing World of Warcraft. I was a huge fan of Blizzard’s other RTS games so I figured I could at least give it a shot. It didn’t take long for me to get addicted hard core. This game was wired into things that really appealed to me on many levels. Visually the game is beautiful, the scale of it all was mind blowing, and the complexity of it which was at first overwhelming, became very appealing after time. The never ending list of things you can do in the game fed into my personality, electronically communicating in a virtual world with thousands of other players simulataneously was cool beyond words. For a time period, my addiction to the game was getting unhealthy. On weeknights I would basically ignore Ali and stay up until midnight, 1 or even 2am playing. It was crazy and I throttled it back. However now, almost a full year later, I still love the game with no end in sight of my addiction. In some ways my WoW playing has been negative as it sometimes dominates my thinking and insulates me from doing other things. However in other ways it has been good. My dedication to the game really dried up a lot of that nickel and dime spending I was doing on the side from living on ebay. I attribute most of our ability to actually save some money this year to WoW. For the 15 bucks a month I pay for the game I literally get dozens of hours of entertainment. Who knows, maybe that is like saying people that are hyped up on speed get a benefit because they never sleep so they get a lot done. 🙂

As mentioned, the major purchases this year were very slim in comparison to recent years. I bought some gadgety stuff like the GPS for the car, a new universal remote control, a used 21 inch monitor for my puter and the chip to mod my xbox. For the house, the major purchase was the new dining room furniture and a new mattress for our bedroom.

I discovered Jack LaLanne this year. I always knew of him but just from his appearance on infomercials primarily. One day I saw the Tivo recorded his show and I just happened to check it out. It was one of his original shows from the 50’s or 60’s. I was immediately hooked. His energy level, overwhelmingly positive attitude, humor and outlook on life really appealed to me. Many nights Ali and I would go through his routines with him from the show that aired that day. I was really pissed that ESPN classic stopped broadcasting his show. Ali bought me Jack’s entire DVD collection from his website. I love this guy. I wish I could adopt more of his positive attitude into my daily life.

I stepped out my comfort zone and did a month of ballroom dancing classes with Ali. I am not nuts about it but it wasn’t as bad as I expected either. I at least know enough that I could get out on the floor with Ali and not look like a total boob.

I’ve gone through a lot of introspect (is that a word?) in 05. At times I felt so flustered and wrought with anxiety I didn’t know what to do. The lack of a big event in the forseeable future created much doubt and confusion for me as to what I should be striving for. I’ve never been the type that was ok with things staying status quo, I always need something to be aiming for. My inability to be satisifed with things is a benefit in some ways and a curse in others. I am sure I’ll continue to struggle with it.

Ok so how about some goals for 06? Well I am looking forward to getting the pool cage rebuilt. Unfortunately with our insurance deductible, the rebuilding process could cost us 6 or 7k out of pocket. In quick order I also expect we will be replacing our water cleaning equipment and our pool pump. I want to travel more in 06. I am hoping to do another trip to Vegas with Keener and hopefully be able to line up a cruise this year. Financially I have a big but possibly attainable goal of being able to pay off the mortgage. I don’t think it will happen in 06 but I will be working hard to pay down the debt to a level where selling the 2 plots of land could wipe the slate clean. Being mortgage free would make a tremendous impact on our lives and I think it is doable. I would love to see us be able to run a 10k before 06 expires. I will play probably the same amount of volleyball as 05 with no big expectations in mind. I just want to play and have fun. I want to jump out of a plane this year. Yea I would still like to be confident in a decision on kids in 06 as well.

Last year at this time I had just under 8000 blog hits, this year I am at 13,000 plus, so readership has been steadily increasing which is a cool thing. Even if noone read it, I would continue to pound it out because I find it therapeutic to spell out what is rolling around my head.

Since we are running a 5k New Year’s Day, I haven’t made any plans for New Year’s Eve. We may go to the casino to get a shot at winning a new Jaguar or we may just ring it in at home, I don’t know.

I hope your 2006 is properous, safe and fulfilling.