After a 3-day “blizzard break” from work I am now on an extended “holiday break” until after the New Year. With things being fairly slow this time of year at work, it is a great time to take a week off, relax, and try to get the “life” back in the work-life balance. With that said, the blogging might be a little light this week.

Christmas turned out really nicely. My grandparents came into town for the holiday, which is always a treat. They always tell fantastic stories from their amazing lives and adventures. Also got to spend time with my family and Kristi’s family, got to tear apart a home entertainment unit with my dad, eat a lot of tasty food and exchange cool presents with my loved ones.

I also got to experience what it feels like to pilot a German engineered, finely tuned, luxury-sled on Christmas eve…at least for 15-feet until my journey ended in the back end of a Jeep. It seems that fricton, gravity, and other laws of physics were not on my side. The picture below is of the minor aerodynamic re-engineering the Jeep did on my “schlitten.”

So off to the body shop tomorrow. And in case you were wondering, no one was hurt…the collision happened at a whopping three mile-per-hour.