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Spent today chilling with my buddy, Dean. It was a cold and rainy day and I just didn’t fell like doing much that couldn’t be put off until tomorrow – or next weekend. Dean happened to call and said he had a craving for buffalo wings. That was all I needed to here – I was outta here.

We went to the new restaurant called Buffalo Wild Wings. Its more than a sports bar – it has pretty good food. I like the huge selection of sauces they offer – no where else in town to pick from that many sauces for your wings.

Got a nice card from an old friend today, Lindsay. She apologized for being late with the cards but she has had a lot going on at her house, so she wrote a nice long letter and enclosed it with the card.

Her husband was on his way home from work a couple of weeks before Christmas and some woman with two little kids on the car ran a stop sign and broadsided him. He has been in the hospital in traction since the accident. To top it all off, the woman who hit him did not have insurance.Of course, his car was totalled. Thankfully he was driving a big Mercury or his injuries could have been a lot worse.

I feel really bad for Lindsay and her family. Just when you least expect it, something catastrophic like this happens and your whole world grinds to a halt. Of curse, she is lucky that no one was killed. But that is small comfort when your husband is lying in a hospital bed and not able to work for an unknown length of time.

Not going out to party tonight but that doesn’t mean we aren’t going to party! We are celebrating New Year’s Eve with a steak dinner, a glass of champagne at midnight, and watching the Times Square ball drop on TV. Welcome to 2012!

What are the top crazy days for shopping at malls? Obviously, Black Friday is the crazy big one. But I suspect that the Saturday before Christmas is a big one, Christmas Eve is a big one, and evidently the two days immediately following Christmas are big ones, too. Now is when everyone is trying to exchange the gifts that they didn’t like or that didn’t fit. And some lucky folks received gift cards and cash as gifts, so they want to get out and take advantage of the sale prices.

This year we don’t get a white Christmas, but it will be a merry one! I hope Santa finds your house and is good to you. Merry Christmas!