Jeremy Herndon

I received a gift in the mail today from one of my brothers.  Apparently he didn’t get it to the post office in time for me to get it before Christmas.  But that’s OK – I always say “better late than never!”  Anyway, it was another really cool gadget for my computer!  It is a wireless mouse that looks like a yellow Mustang!  I’ve been wanting a wireless mouse for quite some time now, but could never really justify the expense.  So it is totally awesome that my brother sent it to me for a Christmas gift!  I have a great family!

I hope you got as awesome a gift as I got for Christmas yesterday! It is a USB Hub that looks like R2D2! My wife tells me that she bought it over the Internet from the geekstuff4u.com website.  I’ve been hinting to my wife that we need a new USB Hub because the old one broke about two weeks ago and it has been a real drag trying to do everything I need to do without it.  So close to Christmas I didn’t want to go out and buy a new one, I thought maybe this would be a good gift for someone to give to me.  So I hinted around a LOT and I have to say that I’m really impressed that this is what I ended up with!  I am a HUGE Star Wars fan!  This little guy is sensational!  He clicks and whirs and beeps and looks perfect on my desk beside my computer.  I think this is about the greatest gift I could have gotten this year!

Well, being true to my sex, I have left much of my shopping undone until today.  I don’t know why I wait until the last minute!  We got off of work about 10am this morning, and I went and did my shopping then.  It’s very interesting to see how many men are at the stores at the same time!  I ran into a few friends of mine, and we all had a good laugh about how we all wait until the last minute to buy our gifts!  Usually I see the store shelves pretty bare, this year I was surprised to see how full they still are!  Well, anyway, I got my shopping done, I hope yours is done too!

Well I woke up this morning and saw a wintry mess out there – freezing rain, snow, nasty stuff.  I sure was glad that I got around to putting my studded snow tires on my car Friday!  I had heard that we were going to be getting some bad weather right off, and decided not to put it off any longer.  There were several times last year that I slid off of the road because I didn’t have my studded tires put on the car.  That’s one mistake that I don’t want to repeat!  This area gets too icy for just plain old “all weather tires.”

This morning I was listening to the radio on my way to work and the disk jockey was talking about having gone to a local school’s Christmas concert over the weekend.  He apparently has been going to this particular school’s concert for many years; I suspect he probably has family members that go there.  I don’t think he has kids that “go there” as students, perhaps they go as teachers or support staff.  I’m basing that on the fact that he commented on being born early enough to be wearing a “Davy Crockett” raccoon hat when the Davy Crockett show came out on television in 1954.  So I have to guess that he was born in the late 40’s.  Anyway, he was playing the song “Sleigh Ride” which has several whip cracks in it.  (I like that song!) 

After the song he was talking about having a conversation with the director of the band that had held the Christmas concert and he asked him what the name of the instrument is that makes the noise of the whip crack.  He was very surprised to learn that the name of the instrument is, in fact, “whip crack.”  I had to laugh at the story because a few years ago I had asked a relative of mine who was in a high school band at the time the exact same question, and got the same answer, and how dumb I felt when he told me the answer!  So it’s nice to know I’m not the only “dummy” out there that didn’t know what that instrument was called!