Deja Vu

It's funny that a year ago I started a blog and didn't write anything in it until a year later! This year's week off was very similar to last year's. Both kids were sick starting Christmas day and lasting until maybe mid-week which caused our plans to visit the city to be suspended but whatever.

For Christmas Eve we went to dinner with the family (all the brothers and their families) at the usual Bonwit Inn. Chistmas itself was fun. I got to put together my reflector. This week there were only 2 nights of relatively clear skies so that was kind of frustrating (and it was really cold, to boot!), but I think I am figuring out R.A. and Dec. so it wasn't a total loss. M42 in Orion (the nebula) looked really nice in the new scope so I think it was worth the moolah!

New Year's eve was quiet at home. We played a board game (Carcassone) which we got for Christmas and which everyone is really happy with. We had only hors d'oeuvres for dinner and eggnog and we watched a couple of episodes of Monk, Season 2, along with the Giants game, and then watched the ball drop.

Spent New Year's day at my parents and tonight am listening to Paul Winter's annual Solstice concert.

New beginnings. Maybe I'll keep this up this year....Who Knows?