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All,

Last year after Christmas we picked out our Christmas cards for this year, sue us, we’re frugal. We found them at Kroger and there were 4 different sized cards in each box all with the same style. Donna sat down as she does every year writes out the cards and I place the stickers and stamps on each envelope.

Turns out there is a minimum size envelope that can be run through the automated sorter machines at Post Offices and one of the four sizes we mailed was too small. So over the last 4 days, we have gotten your cards returned to us with various notes attached on the envelopes from “This is too small and undeliverable” to “Additional 20¢ postage required.”

Instead of trusting the additional 20¢ we opted to buy regular stamps and place your cards in regular sized envelopes, so sorry for the lateness of our Christmas greetings.

We got back 9 cards and we think there was a total of 10 of the small sized envelopes. The missing one might have gone to Canada where we hope the natural politeness of the Canadians applies to their postal service and it will get delivered anyway. If it ends up going to somewhere in America, someone on our list will be greeted by a USPS delivery person ransoming the Christmas card for 20¢

Merry Christmas,
Brian & Donna

If you took advantage of the Buy 1 Set, Get 1 FREE! offer on the Half Time Drill Driver would you then have a Full Time Driver?

Finally watched Prometheus on Sunday. I’ve wanted to see this thing since the trailers starting showing up at the end of last year.

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I would have gone to see it in theaters, but Donna is not a fan at all of scary things that go bump in space. After watching the movie, I liked it, not nearly as much as I anticipated, but it sure was marvelous to look at. Will I watch it again? Maybe. Just to see if I missed anything that might make the movie make more sense. Will I buy a copy of the DVD to put on my shelf next to Alien? Probably not.

Yesterday via, io9.com I found a link to the original script, before Damon Lindelof “polished it up.” Not too surprisingly, I think I would have liked that movie better. Because it is a script, not a book, it helps to have seen the movie to aid in the visualization of the characters and the world they inhabit, but not a requirement. You can read it online or download a PDF to read at your leisure later. Alien Engineers written by Jon Spaiths.

I may have started saying it partially tongue in cheek, but I actually did put a check mark next to Gary Johnson’s name. I was not the only one (well maybe the only one in my precinct) as the Libertarian candidate garnered over a 1.1 million votes and a solid 1% of the total votes cast.

One reason I felt I needed to vote for Gary Johnson was his stance on decriminalizing marijuana. That didn’t happen on a national level, but now Donna and I have another reason to move to Washington state besides her brother, his wife, a nephew and two nieces, Initiative Measure No. 502.