Awesome news on the promotion, congrats man!
I like SSX but I never really sat down and tried to get into the game. I played a bit here and there, but never gave it a lot of time like the previous versions.
Killing Patton seems like an interesting book. I might have read one of O'Reilly's early books but that one seems interesting when I saw it at Costco.
I've been busy finishing off the leftovers from Thanksgiving.