Life is too short to blog. At least it has been lately. Things have been terribly busy at work, as usual, and our home has been in disarray for weeks. Every day there are one or two packages on our doorstep, and the pile at the door is now as tall as I am. I’m not complaining, but when you don’t have time to unbox Christmas presents, what does that say about how busy you are? Sending Christmas presents? Ha. This morning we’re sending the kids over to a friend’s house so that we can convert the big pile of boxes into a treeful of presents.

Further, I’m coming down with a cold. Tara has had it for a few days, and it doesn’t seem very pleasant. She and I haven’t been sick in a while.

Jennifer and I have independently been sorting through the years’ photos and video. There’s a lot of good stuff there and I hope to get some slideshows together during the week we have off. I’ve given up on the crashtastic Photodex Proshow for putting my photos on DVD. I just bought the Photoshop/Premiere Elements bundle, and it only crashes so far when you try to import 8 GB worth of MJPEG videos. I’m trying now to transcode them to MPEG2 first to see if that works better.

Finally, Happy Birthday to my niece Lily, who turned zero this week.