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Good morning, Pixlbit Nation! How is everyone on this fine day? We're on day two of howling winds and cold temps, but I don't care. My great-nephew Gabriel was born this morning at 6:58, and I can't wait to meet the little guy! I'm hoping to make the trip down this weekend. There will be much spoiling of this child on my part, I have a feeling.

Movies. We've all got favorites. I have shelves full of favorites. And they're all over the place in terms of genre (no chick flicks, though). I was going to do a ten favorite list, but I couldn't decide what to kick out to pare it down to ten, so I said "what the heck" and made it 25. These are not ranked in any way, shape, or form.

The weather has improved dramatically this month. We've had over a week of no snow storms, and the weather has made it to freezing or just above for the last couple of days. Woohoo! And I will be starting back at the park in 19 days. YAY! Not much going on for excitement, other than Bandit being firmly convinced that the field is a puppy-swallowing wasteland and not to be trusted. I've packed down a trail going out to the trails in the woods behind the house with my snowshoes, but he keeps stepping off the packed-down part and then flounders around in the deep snow and panics. He then heads back for the porch and looks at me like I'm trying to get him killed. Silly dog.

I'm still coming down off the high of finishing the Bradbury Mountain Snowshoe Series, not to mention my quads are killing me. I've got the fever, folks, I'm already planning for next year, and I found myself tempted to sign up for a six mile race in NH. I quashed that one, it's this coming Sunday and there's a 1324 foot elevation gain. There's no way I'd be able to do that physically so soon after Sunday's race. If it hadn't been for the elevation gain, I might've, though...

Five miles of hilly hell this morning and my third race is done. I'm exhausted and sore and you'll have to read about it on my other blog. But it has pretty pictures!

I've been wanting to play LBP or LBP2 co-op again for a while now. There are a bunch of x4 areas that I still haven't gotten, plus, LBP is just more fun with friends. I started trying to organize a game on Facebook early yesterday afternoon. I had people who said they were definitely in, some that said they'd try, and no response from a bunch more. I knew it was last minute, so I didn't figure I'd hear from everybody anyway, and you can only play with up to four people. By evening, it looked like I had a solid four player game happening. And then the time to actually play rolled around...

I gave up on BaD, which you probably all noticed. Just didn't have the oomph this year. Anyway...

I just saw this on Facebook and it's too funny not to share. The Bangor Police Department has someone writing their Facebook statuses with a an excellent sense of humor. Read on. Might be the funniest thing I've read this year so far.

I've been busy playing Tales of Xillia 2 lately. I have no idea how far into the game I am, nor do I really care. I'm having fun and enjoying myself.

Shortly after the Squall, it started snowing and hasn't really let up since. I got lazy and stopped training. Stupid of me. There's 80” of snow out there, and not much is packed, I hate road running, and there's no room on the side of the road. And I'm an idiot for not going out anyway. The White Out wasn't nearly as much fun as the Squall...