Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving ritual is usually as follows: I drive home to St Louis on Thanksgiving morning, we hang out at the house for a few hours, then drive to our friends the Hamms' house in Illinois (a 40 minute drive or so), and we hang out with them for the evening. The Hamms' family seems to get bigger and bigger every year; they have three kids and all three of them are grown and married with children.



They're great people .. we've known them since I was a kid. It's always rather odd that as the Hamm family grows, I feel further and further removed from them .. less able to relate I guess. It kinda bums me out, cause we used to all be really tight. But my sisters and I spent most of the evening together instead of mingling with all the parents and children. Jen has in the past brought her boyfriends, but this time John was spending the night with his own family.



Kinda surprisingly, the big story this weekend is the Mizzou/Kansas football game. This game has national attention, and would be the most fantastic win of our entire year (if not decade, barring the 2003 Nebraska win) so I'm actually pretty excited about watching it tonight .. although I may not get to watch the ending, as I really need to drive back to Columbia tonight so I can be home and get cracking on the multimedia movies for the magazine tomorrow. I have about one week to go until I want to be complete and launched. Since the MU/KU game starts at 7, if I wait till it ends until I get on the road, I probably won't get back into Columbia until 1am or later. So I might leave earlier, particularly if the outcome of the game is less in doubt).



I also got my Christmas shopping started, partially by braving the traffic and heading to Circuit City with my dad. After consulting with the ads, we managed to find and bring home a wireless router (that included a new printer for free), that we then hooked up and configured. So now, at long last, I can surf wirelessly at broadband speeds when I go to St Louis to visit mom and dad. So I was up last night doing some Amazon shopping.

The bad news is, I found out this afternoon that my brother won't be coming to my graduation next month. :( I'll miss ya, bro.

In the meantime ... GO MIZZOU!