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I picked up an early birthday present this afternoon. Thanks to a sale at Lowe’s I was able to pick up this four burner gas grill with side burner for a very good price. I am going to put it together next weekend and do as much grilling as the weather permits. 

Today is the big Apple press event where all the rumors say Apple will be introducing a tablet computing device. What I am hoping to see is iPhone OS 4 and an updated iLife suite of software. I am reserving judgement on the tablet until I see Steve Jobs demo it.

I have become quite a fan of word games recently, mainly Words With Friends on my iPhone along with the classic Scrabble.  I got sucked into playing Words With Friends and that motivated me to pickup Scrabble. My son who is almost ten years old loves playing Scrabble with me. We used to play board games together more but then we got out of the habit as he outgrew little kids games. I have really enjoyed the family time we have shared playing together. If you are looking for something to do with your kids as a family during a the very cold Midwestern winter, board games are a great option.

I moved my site to a new VPS provider and I am pretty happy with the performance so far. I also fixed the mod_rewrite issue in the process so links work on my site now.

I had quite a wonderful weekend. The weather was unseasonably warm for November, Saturday was almost 70°F and Sunday was 75°F. I raked a lot of leaves over the two days so I feeling kind of sore right now. Saturday the wife and I got out for dinner alone and that was real nice. One thing that is hard to remember to do is to slow down and not feel rushed when the kids aren’t with us. We did a little shopping and then we home and watched movies until we were falling asleep on the couch.

A friend of mine pointed me at a new PC game called Torchlight. Torchlight is a lot like Blizzard’s Diablo games which I loved. I have been playing Torchlight since Friday night and I have been having a total blast.

Sunday the Bears showed they really need to rework the offensive line as well as the defense. I think the reason why the Bears are having so much trouble running the ball this year is they aren’t opening up any lanes for the runners.  Its great we have a good quarterback finally but if the offensive line can’t open any holes to run and they can’t block well enough to give him time to throw the ball we don’t have much hope. The defense has suffered several key players being injured so its really a suboptimal group on the field. For a Bears fan to see the defense play so badly is a heart breaker. The Bears are 4 and 4 now and I don’t see the hope of much improvement over the rest of the season.