Friday, December 3, 2010

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...

Actually, it's more me than the goose that's getting fat, but that's not the point of the above somewhat musically-based post title. Instead, it's the fact that it's now officially December, and there's snow on the ground (about a foot of it) and Christmas is just a skosh over three weeks away...

It seems like just yesterday that the ground was bare and it was relatively warm, then suddenly, BAM! Zero degree weather followed by snow...

Thanksgiving week was good, despite the fact that I had to work from the Sunday before Thanksgiving until yesterday. Long time without a change of pace, but on the other hand, the amount of OT I made should take a tiny bit of the sting out of it.

Last night we braved the storms and nasty roads to drive to Boise to see the Oak Ridge Boys Christmas concert. What a great show! Those guys have been around forever, but they can still put together some fantastic harmony, and they're still as good as ever. We saw them at the BSU Pavilion a zillion years ago. This show was at the Morrison Center, which is a much smaller venue than the Pavilion (or the Taco Bell Arena as it's called now), which is cool because it seems a lot more personal. They don't try to blast you out of our seat with decibels, and you can understand the words to the songs...

They did about 40 minutes of their regular stuff, had an intermission then came back for what was supposed to be another 40 minutes and ended up being about an hour and ten minutes. At one point the Joe guy announced that what we saw behind them were Christmas trees, they were singing Christmas songs, and that they were not on a Holiday Tour but a Christmas Tour. Lots of cheering for that one from the audience!