It's 4am in the morning and I'm only now settling down to go to sleep. It's nights like this that make me wish I had a different job. I can't seem to get to sleep earlier than 2-3am anymore.

I've been following the Cookware Debate (Instapundit 1 & 2, VodkaPundit) with some interest. Part of my christmas this year was gift of a nice, at least for a 20 something single guy, set of cookware. It's interesting that out of all the things that get brought up by Prof. Reynolds, it's a discussion on cookware that causes him to do the rare thing of opening comments. I'm definately happy with the items that I have now, without a doubt. And it's a new experience for me to learn to use stainless steel cookware instead of whatever was cheapest at insert random Walmart type store. It's definately given me a lot of things to remember in order to get better results.

Another one of the Christmas gifts I received this year was a Garmin eTrex. My mom still doesn't understand why I wanted this I think, but basically I've been wanting to get back into hiking/backpacking and felt I needed something to augment my rusty orienteering skills. At one point I could have taught people how to use a map and compass to find their way anywhere, anymore I wouldn't trust my own skills to get myself out of the forest as it's been so long. An added bonus, among many, of this gift though is I can now participate in GeoCaching. I had the opportunity when the rain let up a little bit to go for my first find. Sarah seems to be interested in this too, so the two of us will probably start doing this together, especially after the weather gets better this spring.

Due to the server downtime there was actually quite a bit of stuff that I had time to write about around Christmas that I just don't feel like going back and getting into at this point. There is one thing though: UofL 65 - UK 56. That's right, UofL knocked off a #1 (ESPN/USA Today) ranked team and ended UK's winning streak that went back a good 27 games and 364 days to their last encounter with UofL. Though I know that this ruffles some UK fans fur, it's just going to get worse for them in coming years as we all know Pitino is doing for us now what he did for UK in the early 90's. I'm really happy that this ends the streak of whichever team wins the football game losses the basketball game, especially as UofL winning both is how that ended.