Home. Again.

I’ve been couch-contained since just before the New Year. I had “minor” surgery on the 30th. Minor meaning there’s nothing for my friends to worry about and there’s plenty to affect my life. Yesterday I tried work for the first time. A high percentage of people have no problems within a couple days. I waited a whole week and had plenty of problems. I was home by 10:30. I felt worse yesterday than I did last Thursday.

I really hate the feeling of involuntarily leaving responsibilities at work. I say “involuntarily” because I really have no problems deciding to skip out on work. That’s behavior I’ve had since birth! It’s also part of the reason I scheduled this procedure during our boat’s in-port period. Of course, the upside is more time at home with the family. I have also had loads of time to work on hobbies (work? lol) such as Blogger and poker.

I’ve found some new reads as far as blogs go. It’s nice to have something new to read every time I log on. My new poker blog is going great. I’ve designed a header and background for it using my minimal graphic design talents. I’ll use this opportunity to shamelessly plug it again ;-)

http://cgcook38.blogspot.com/

I love Blogger’s feature that allows me to set the time that a blog gets published. This allows me to write multiple blogs at once without throwing them all out there at the same time. This is perfect for poker, as I am always thinking about it. There’s always something for me to write about. Also, when my boat leaves for an entire week I will have the ability to publish while I am gone, which is wonderful!

Out of Order

I know I said that many pictures were coming, and that’s still the case. I am on leave through the New Year, and I am expecting to be much more motivated tomorrow. Actually, I feel like that every day. :) By the way, my kids are broken - the wind woke me up on Christmas morning when they should have. I didn’t even have to roll out of bed until 7:30. Even then, it was at my wife’s insistence at the first hint that the kids were awake. I'm pretty sure that she was excited.

My Internet was also broken on Christmas Day. That is also the wind's fault. It also serves as my official excuse for not blogging with a ton of photos today. However I did manage to upload one photo. Here’s a pic of all of us gathered around the tree. Enjoy!

The New England Experience

We had guests at the house recently. My brother Erick was in town. The kids loved him and called him Uncle Ick (well, the shorter ones did anyway). His visit was overlapped by my parents, Bill and Jane. We tried to give them as much New England as we could.

Here's Bill with a 3.5 lb Lobster and a Sam Adams.

We ran out to Kevin and Jodie’s to see Owl’s Head Light. Since we know the “keepers” we got to show them inside.

Then we showed them around the Mighty Warship Abbie Burgess.

Later we ran to Acadia on Mount Desert Island:

Wii pretty much did everything that New England has to offer… except Candlepin Bowling. Wii hate Candlepin Bowling. Instead Wii found a different form of bowling. One the kids could enjoy.