Christmas is finally over. Hope everyone survived it. Emily and I went back to New London to her side of the family for Christmas. Tomorrow we go back for my side. I'm not going to lie, it hasn't been a very exciting Christmas this year. It is most likely due to the fact that I am getting older, and the older you get, the less exciting it gets. It seems like every year there is a theme to the presents that I get. Last year it was German related stuff. This year it was Star Trek related gifts. I got a Spock Christmas tree ornament. A Star Trek poster and a Star Trek encyclopedia. Beyond that I can't even remember what else I got. I still have Christmas to go with my side of the family which may yield some different results.

Christmas to me seems sort of like an inconvenience. You go and spend $50 on a gift for somebody hoping it is what they want and they spend $50 on your hoping to get what you want. Often times it isn't what either person wanted. I think it is more logical to just keep your $50 and get whatever it is what you want, wrap it up, and open it with family. Otherwise it's just a big scam to get together with your family for another holiday. Christmas isn't really about celebrating Christ anymore anyways. It's barely even about Santa Clause. It's more about fueling the economy one last time before the beginning of a new fiscal year. It's the American way.

Ok I'm done ranting. In other news I'm sorry to announce that I have a cell phone now. Emily and I went to Verizon and got two new phones. They are a LG Chocolate. My overall experience with the phone is negative so far. It seems that the cell companies go out of their way to include features on the phones but make you pay to use any of them. It's like having a computer with everything you want on it, but to use anything you have to pay a $1 each time.

Also being a fairly advanced computer user, things or methods that would normally work on a computer do not work on cell phones. One would assume, if they place an MP3 file on a SD card on the phone in the "sounds" or "music" folder, it would be available to use as a ring tone. It doesn't. One would also assume that if you have an external card, that the phone would save your contacts and all your information on that card as well as the phone for backup and to use externally. It doesn't. You would also assume that if you live withing a few miles of numerous cell towers, your reception would be crystal clear. It isn't. Yeah. As sad as it is to admit, the iPhone is probably the most suitable cell phone there is for me. You know more of a PDA, less of a phone. But Macs still suck!

Work is going good. I've been in a fierce battle with Web Trends. I think so far I am winning then battle. It seems like when I figure out how to do something, it goes ahead and ruins something else. It's been sort of fun messing with it lately, even when I'm somehow taking down various IT resources for the whole company in the process. I will say it's probably one of the least intuitive software packages out there right behind the Unreal Tournament level editor.

Well that's all for now.