In case anyone is interested in my taste in music, here is one of my new favorites, Anastacia, with her latest single:

We saw her on Graham Norton a few weeks ago and I became obsessed (sort of). I now have all four of her albums and was surprised to have iTunes serve her up on the soundtrack for “Chicago” the movie as well.

My honey just completed a Saint Nicholas costume he’d been working on since last Friday and he dressed in it to visit neighbors and friends tonight. It’s pretty cool and not the commercial Santa outfit we are so used to seeing.

A major storm is beginning tonight and we should awake to what sounds like quite a bit of snow in the morning. At least the roadbeds are relatively clear as it reached in the mid-30s today.

John Hodgman, a self-proclaimed “famous minor television personality” (and co-star of the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” commercials for Apple), said this about Obama and Rev. Rick Warren:

WHAT’S MORE: this not solely a question of being inclusive of different viewpoints. If Warren were merely a pro-life creationist, I would not be so bothered. It’s the question that Obama and Warren agree on that really troubles me.
BOTH WARREN AND OBAMA believe in a fallacy: that one can support equal rights for “everybody” (Warren) and for gay folks specifically (Obama), and yet not support a gay person having the same access as a straight person to the governmental special status known as “marriage.”
I KNOW HOW TEMPTING this fallacy can be: I am ashamed to admit that I half-fell for it myself until Massachusetts proved that the world would not end, and the semantic difference between “domestic partnerships” and “marriage” was so meaningless as to be offensive. I was wrong, I am sorry.
I HAVE CONFIDENCE that, in no short order, Prop 8 will be repealed, and the gay marriage debate will look as absurd at the miscegenation debates of the 20th century do now. I have confidence this will happen not because it is merely right, or because the electorate will suddenly love gayness, but because opposition to gay marriage has no logical foundation in a civil society that is premised on equality.
(CHURCHES can go ahead and ban it all they like. They have their own charters, and no obligation to logic.)
THOSE OF US, however, who foolishly refused to take Obama at his word when he told us he didn’t support gay marriage OVER AND OVER AGAIN must now take him at his deed. He really, really doesn’t want gays to get married. SRSLY.

John Hodgman’s blog

Jasper Caffeinated

No wonder he sleeps so soundly — during the day.

As a former employee of Continental Airlines (I would have celebrated 25 years on January 3, 2009), I was saddened to hear of the aborted takeoff and subsequent low-level crash landing in Denver late last week.

Whilst perusing the London Times, I found three illustrative photos of the ‘totalled’ 737-500 aircraft:

Boy, when the nights get longer, they get longer fast! Since today is the shortest day of the solar year, tomorrow morning’s sunrise –if visible behind the clouds — will be an incremental moment earlier.

We went to our friends Patrice and Harry’s annual Christmas party last night and really enjoyed it. They have the most eclectic group of friends — including us. It’s nice to see real diversity in whitebread Utah.

We’ve done a little Christmas shopping over the last couple of days. It really is more fun to give….

The weather is supposed to be stormy again tomorrow, and the the next day and the next day. It looks like our Wyoming trip may come after Christmas instead of before.

Tomorrow is my sister-in-law’s 50th birthday. We had hoped to be there for that event, but it’s not to be. She was here for mine last March and I hoped to return the favor.

The snow is high, the roads aren’t cleared and it’s cold, so here we enjoy our first vacation day: in the house.

I have been updating my photoblog and my honey is in the cold basement making a Santa suit for the Santa Pub Crawl this weekend (personally, I think he’s lost it).

We have every intent to drive to Wyoming for a family Christmas sometime during the next few days, but the predicted storms don’t give me a lot of confidence. 500 miles of I-80 in December is a crapshoot at best. This time, the house seems to be winning every day.

We are going to a Christmas party at Patrice & Harry’s tonight. They’re always a nice, relaxing respite from the hustle and bustle of the season.