Now that I've got a blog, what the hell do I do with it.

So I created my blog 2 days ago. I have been checking it religiously to see if anyone has left a comment. So far no.

Anyway I am sitting around watching college football on New Year's Day. Doesn't matter which teams, I just like to watch college football on NYD. Actually its a pretty good game, WVU vs. Georgia Tech and its 38-35 in the third quarter.

I am all alone in the house. My family is still down at my dacha in Canmore. I had to come back to work. I was supposed to be on call last night from 1700 on. However when I phoned in around 1600, there was no work to be done so I stayed at home waiting to be called in but morning came around and no-one had called. That is the first time this has ever happened to me. Anyway I had good intentions of reading my Christmas Book, "Searching for Bobby Orr" but I have to confess I watched Seinfeld re-runs. A couple of them I don't actually remember watching so I guess it was a productive evening. I also watched a bit of the 60 minutes show on Ed Bradley. Turns out he was a good friend of Jimmy Buffett, who had lost most of his hair and looks like a 60ish businessman.

2007 is the year I turn 50. I must say I am looking forward to the gravitas that will surely come with attaining that age. For the last year or so I have been referring to myself as almost 50. I do remember how old my father seemed when he turned 50 but I don't feel that old at all. I still ski (way better than I did at 25, if only because I didn't learn until I was 26) and I starting riding my bike 45 minutes each way to work in the summer. Hair loss is apparently not in my genes and I have only a touch of gray. I have in the last year or so developed gout and I depend on my All-Bran buds.

My wife told me that in milestone years every day in like your birthday so I am hoping that is the case.