Hey guys,

Well the weather and my wife's grad school advisor have conspired to screw me at the end of the year. I was unable to go at the beginning of Dec like I had planned because my wife was having to work 12 to 14 hr days 6-7 days a week. Guess who got to play Mr Mom? Her semester was over on the 19th of Dec and I was planning on going between Christmas and New Years (the manufacturing plant I work at closes down during that time and we have off during that time, with pay even!). Well mother nature had different plans and we had one hell of a blizzard on Christmas eve that we are still trying to get out of (and we had another one last night). Our season closes on the 15th and I don't think I'll be able to get out there before then, so it looks like my season is done. It looks like I'll be eating 2 very expensive tags for dinner sometime soon.