Kickin' back n' relaxin'.

Well, its a few days after Xmas. Still relaxing and enjoying my vacation. Not much new to report, but I do love being in the country. Believe it or not, all the snow melted around here! Kind of a bummer, but the temperature dropped again, so we expecting another dumper of snow.

I did make it a point to take a drive into the city of Syracuse. Lots of old memories. I almost forgot how much I love to drive around singing along with the radio. Rediscovered Soul Asylum's "Grave Dancer's Union" CD. Love it!

Anyway, back to the relaxin'!

See you on the other side.

Merry Christmas to All!!

So, today was my first real Christmas in 3 years. And, to top it off it was a white Christmas!! (I love snow!!) I got some good goodies, and ate way too much food.

As most of you know I'm a Taoist, but I enjoy Christmas. Yeah, sometimes the commercialism gets to be a bit much, but I think there is a bit of genuine human love and goodness that shines through during the holidays. My parents are divorced, but seeing as I'm home this year we all spent the day together and put aside all the wreckage of our pasts and had a good time.
I know... I sound mushy...
Oh well...

Merry Christmas!

See you on the other side.

Back to the bunny hill!

Today, I went snowboarding at Toggenberg Mountain in Pompey, NY. I wouldn't exactly call it a "mountain", but its the ski slope that I grew up on. Well, I didn't "grow up" on it, but I did learn how to ski & snowboard there. It was a good time. I was only there for about 4 hours and the conditions were kinda icy, but it was really nice to be out in the ice cold fresh air.


On the way home we stopped at my dad's friends house. He just got a 1951 racing Porsche out of a barn, and now he's gonna restore it. Its covered in mud, but it's still a pretty sweet car!

Snow country!!

Woo-hoo!! Let it snow!

Well as some of you know I'm originally from the outskirts of Syracuse, NY, and we like our SNOW!! It's really been coming down, and I'm lovin' it!!

Today, my sister and went into the city to do some last minute Christmas shopping, and while we were there we met our dad for a pizza at Uno's. 久しぶりで美味しかった！！
I haven't had a good deep-dish pizza in over three years! Japan has some delicious food, but they don't seem to get pizza right. This one was excellent!

After that, the two of us went and did our shopping, and then met our mom and her work friends for their department Christmas party.

On the way home it was REALLY snowing. In such conditions you gotta dive slow, but its a great adventure. So anyway, we were in to separate cars, and I was driving with my mom, when we all of a sudden get a phone call from my sister. Turns out she spun her car around 180 degrees, and was off the road! Well, that's not to out of the ordinary for CNY-ers, but I, having been in Nagoya for the past three winters, was psyched to see some snowland action!

So, we got their and I hopped in the drivers seat. Just then a guy with a 4WD vehicle and a tow hitch stopped by and offered to pull us out. We hooked up the hitches, put both cars in 4WD and popped that baby right out of the snowbank. Good fun! I was also really great that some one was nice enough to stop and help out a fellow human being in need. That really meant a lot to me.

Anyway, that's my story for today.

See you on the other side.

So it begins!!

Well, here we are... Face to face with the beginning of my life as a blogger.

You may already know me from my YouTube page. This blog will be a bit of a different window into my soul though I imagine. What does the future hold in store for us? I do not know... All we can do is subscribe and find out.

Pictures, movies, mayhem, and more!!

See you on the other side.