Today we end the year of 2007 +

Today I emailed Eike in Germany. ^

Today the Packers finished the regular season with 13 wins and 3 losses. ^

Today the St. Louis Rams finished their terrible season with 3 wins and 13 losses +

Today I watched the New England Patriots win their 16th game for a perfect season. ^

Today I started running the SETI program again +

Today it appears the honor of the 600th post on this blog belongs to me +

Today we got 5 more inches of snow and Jen helped me clear part of the parking lot so I could pull my van inside. ^

Today Danielle gave me two chocolate bars and two beers for Christmas. ^

Today I felt nauseous most of the day +

Today a car pulled out in front of me on Stadium Blvd. and I came very close to hitting it +

Today I ordered the 3rd and 4th Sandman books from Amazon. ^

Today I ate Christmas dinner at my aunt and uncle's house +

Today we opened presents at 6:30 AM. ^

Today I beat Mom and Dad at Scrabble. ^

Today I did a little tweaking of Firefox and Thunderbird following the big re-installation +

Today was cold +

Today I gave Sophie a Viewmaster and Henry a Jack-in-the-box for Christmas. ^

Today we went from about 60 degrees at noon to 20 degrees, sleet, and an inch of snow at midnight +

Today I bought my parents sundaes at Michael's. ^

Today I watched that classically bad movie from the 80's, Red Dawn again +

Today Mom and Dad had a very foggy drive up here. ^

Today I installed the 2 gigs of new memory in my computer +

Today DP did not drive up here as planned, due to illness. ^

Today I saw on Amazon that my 2 gigs of memory for the computer made it to Earth City, MO preparatory to being delivered tomorrow +

Today I watched Mutual Appreciation all the way through for the first time. ^

Today after a call to Mediacom they suggested maybe my firewall was blocking my internet access and they were right +

Today I spent an hour chipping ice from the driveway and front walk, but I doubt I cleared even 15 sq. ft. ^

Today my internet connection stayed down all day +

Today I made a deal with Danielle involving snow removal and quitting my weekend cleaning job. ^

Today my internet connection went down +

Today I borrowed Joe's scraper thing to get a bunch of the snow off our roof. ^

Today I finished transferring all the photos on my site to my host's server so I don't have to hotlink to Flickr anymore. ^

Today we got about 3 inches of snow +

Today this work week is finally over. ^

Today I ordered 2 gigs of memory for my computer +

Today Daniel came over and borrowed the 2 pole saws he gave me back in the summer of 2006 +

Today I think I have a spider bite above my right knee in the back. ^

Today I ate a bowl of homemade vegetable soup +

Today I talked with Tien's mom for the first time in many months. ^

Today after several fits and starts and 2 trips to Mediacom for new modems the cable and internet finally both came on and stayed on +

Today Joel told us to go home around noon due to the snow. ^

Today I turned 38 years old but alas had neither cable TV nor internet access +

Today I finished figuring times for all the stops on my routes so they can plug them into the new "route creator" software. ^

Today we had a major ice storm during which the cable TV joined the internet and ceased to function +

Today I don't feel like doing anything. ^

Today my internet connection went down +

Today I drove Tien to McFarland for a meeting with a potential client. ^

Today I washed all my covers and quilts +

Today we have around 15 inches of snow on the ground and it sounds like we could get up to 6 more this weekend. ^

Today we got our first snow of the season which amounted to a whopping inch +

Today Henry had an allergic reaction to peanut butter and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. ^

Today I took my car in and they were able to repair the flat tire by simply installing a new valve stem for $15.80 +

Today I had dinner with Stephen who is in town learning how to make ice cream at the UW. ^

Today I had to change my first flat tire in many a year +

Today Tom made a delivery to the Rising Sun, which is apparently a massage parlor/brothel on the Capitol Square. ^

Today Daniel and I visited the Winston Churchill Museum in Fulton +

Today I got to work early to load my van. ^

Today it was cold, rainy, and windy +

Today I shoveled the heaviest snow in snow history. ^

Today Missouri's one week reign as the number one football team in the country came to an abrupt end at the hands of the Sooners +

Today we got maybe 5 inches of snow and ice. ^