OK, I finally got through the first week of work after vacation. Beth and I had a pretty good vacation visiting my family in Arizona. We saw London bridge, which is in Lake Havasu City. It's kind of cool but a little...well...cheesy. Christmas was good. Mom & Dad kept paying for everything all week, which was also good. We saw "Best in Show" (outstanding), "Cast Away" (very good) and "Finding Forrester" (very good) and I got to go Jeeping with Dad. We went out on a trail somewhere near Superstition Mountain with his club on a maintenance run (I found and cleaned up a camp site with 37 beer cans tossed aside). A roadrunner walked through their backyard a couple times and I got a picture of it with my (Christmas present) camera; see the picture of the month. I will never again travel the very day before I go back to work. That sucks. Back home, it was a pretty uneventful week at work which I just had to muddle through. Yesterday the young couples group at church had a murder mystery. Everyone dressed up for their parts and we played a sort of role-playing version of Clue. That's a lot of fun. Good times. And by the way, my Spartans claimed the #1 spot last week.