How redding rolls

     Redding is suddenly very chilly and the citizens of this great city are hoping for a white Christmas.  I know I'm certainly wanting to make snow angels on Christmas morning.  This sudden cold snap has however, forced me to make a few adjustments in my daily life.  For example, I have to bundle up whenever I go outside, especially when I am going to be riding my bike.  Here is a photograph of my sweet riding threads:

You may notice that I kind of look like a ninja/dumb ass.  At least I'm warm though!  Today I got to ride through some light snow for the first time in my life (growing up in Menifee (Dry desert hellish climate) we didn't get any snow days.) and found it very pleasing, except when I was going fast and getting little snow flakes in my eyes.

     Other than riding around in the snow I'm going to spend today indoors making some lovely snowflakes out of paper and watching a movie.  I'm going to watch Hotel Rwanda, which I realize doesn't really pair well with making paper snowflakes, but why not?  Maybe the snowflakes will cheer me up as I watch unfathomable acts of genocide on my TV screen.  Maybe after all the two do pair well together!  

     Played a little game of rummy at Sue's with the beautiful bride this morning, she won, but in my defense I had the hand with the most points.  That's all I have to say to all of you.  Hope to see you at the Holiday Party tomorrow, should be lots and lots and lots of fun!

Thanksgiving. Eagles kick basses asses all the time.

If you're wondering about the title, I just think it's a good rhyme.

A holiday as American as american football.  God bless the eternal souls of those pilgrims. I'm very happy that gluttony can be considered a deadly sin by some and a Holy day (holiday) by others.  For my sake I really hope gluttony is not deadly, because I snacked and ate all day long. 

Kelly and I went down to good ol' Menifee, the land from whose loins I was produced, and spent the week with my family.  We had quite a good time I have to say.  On Tuesday we went to Disneyland and Dinsey's California Adventure.  "Park Hopper" passes are a bargain at only $93 each.  However, we decided to keep the chump change in our pockets and get in for free via my mother's boyfriend's daughter that works at one of the shops, in Frontierland I believe.  We went on all the rides, the good ones at least, except for Splash Mountain.  We had a lot of fun all day.  I'd love to prove all this to you with great photos of our day but, I managed to drop our camera and break the screen before I was about to take the first photo of the day.  Bummer.  At least I had my good, old fashioned, reliable, tried and true film camera though.  I took charge of documenting our fun with my camera and took some really great photos, especially one of the tea cups where I used a long exposure to capture the movement of the tea cups and get the full color of the paper lanterns above.  But nobody will ever see that photo or any other from that day because when I tried to rewind my film, my reliable tried and true camera broke and instead of rewinding the film, ripped the film.  Bummer.

On another topic.  Doesn't "Black Friday" disgust you?  Every year stores have ridiculous sales and people are killed.  For what?  a flat screen TV?  I hope your new TV falls off the wall and lands on your head you murderer!  If you didn't catch the whole story of what happened here it is.  A mob of people waiting outside of a Wal*Mart (go figure) broke the front door off of it's hinges and trampled an employee to death.  A witness said that the door frame was bent like an accordion after the mob had passed.  Wal*Mart, if you were wondering, stayed open for business the rest of the day and most likely rolled back prices a little more since they now have one less employee on the payroll.  

As the AWESOME song says, "It's been a while since I gone and..." posted a blog.  This is a poem that I wrote for school.  Read it or die!

Here for a reason

I have come here for a purpose

I am here for a reason

But already my purpose is diminishing

As I listen to the twang of a banjo.

I arrived with a goal in mind

With my eyes on the finish line

But the prize seems out of reach

As I stare at my steaming cup.

I came here to finish it

To cease procrastination

But completion seems unattainable

As I sit and let my wandering mind wander.

I came to this place

Where my mind can focus

 But now, I think I'll just let my thoughts drift.