I was playing Wii boxing with my girl­friend when she noticed that some­thing was hap­pening out­side. Turns out, reports of snow were not an exag­ger­a­tion. Doesn’t look like enough to stick, but it is the first snow we’ve seen this season. I guess the cold weather is really here. It seems a little early for snow, but maybe it’s my imag­i­na­tion. I don’t remember many days of really cold weather or heavy snow last year. We were lucky. This season may hold more.

I had lunch with my friend Sarah on Friday. She’s still in school; inter­acting with her makes me feel con­nected. My school expe­ri­ence was very inspiring. It makes my day-to-day work seem so flat and boring. Instead of dis­cussing my work, we talked about my idea for this year’s hol­iday card. While we were talking I had an idea that I started working on today. I got off to a rough start but the design is really starting to take shape. I should have it done in a few days and then I can make up my mailing list and get things sent off. Hope­fully, I won’t have to pur­chase too much spe­cial paper to print them. I have so much paper here. I should make the most of my existing resources.

Found online: Gary West Meats. Monica and I ordered from them and they are very good. We learned about them by watching the Food Net­work. If you are into this kind of thing, I rec­om­mend their jerky.