A New Year

Published at: 08:01 pm - Friday January 01 2010

New Years Day 2010:

The tree stand looks sad and empty, and the front of the house looks dull with no lights.  Thus we begin a spectacular new year!

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Happy New Year!

Published at: 11:12 pm - Thursday December 31 2009

5 Years and Counting:

This blog is starting its 5th year now. When it started I never thought I would see things through that long.  I also never thought I would be a married man.  The fact that both happened are spectacular, and I look forward to dedicating more time to my wife and my blogging [...]

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Santa Crawling V4.0

Published at: 11:12 am - Thursday December 17 2009

Intoxicated Claus:

Whats better than merely celebrating Christmas? Celebrating Christmas dressed as Santa Claus!
Whats better than merely celebrating Christmas dressed as Santa Claus? Celebrating Christmas dressed as Santa Claus whilst drinking too much!
…and that’s what we did! For the 4th year in a row we gathered a dozen Santas (and one Frosty!) and set out on [...]

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Another Successful Christmas!

Published at: 12:12 am - Friday December 26 2008

December 25, 2008:

I’ve been back from Singapore for a few weeks now, to spend the holidays with the family.
As tradition (3 years in a row now) dictates, my brother, Aaron, and I have to gather up a bunch of Santas and head down to Pasadena to do some childhood-dream-crushing drinking.  Nothing better than seeing the [...]

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Ho Ho Ho

Published at: 06:12 pm - Wednesday December 19 2007

A Week Before Christmas:

The Second Annual Santa Pub Crawl went down last Saturday night to another raging success.  You can never understand, without being there, what a small army of Santas can do to a bar or just a common city street; horns honked, crowds parted, shots were bought, beer flowed and we must have [...]

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Merry Christmas! (late)

Published at: 05:12 pm - Friday December 29 2006

3 Days Before Day:154

Christmas was great this year, and having hoiday plans for five days in a row made me almost feel Jewish (they get eight days). The holidays went like this; Mom’s, Dad’s, Snowboarding, Sisters, and Mom’s again. My brothers both made it home for a few days and we all stayed in the [...]

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What Would Santa Do?

Published at: 09:12 pm - Sunday December 10 2006

Dec 10, 2006:

So… How do alcoholics celebrate Christmas? Of course! We all dress up as Santa and go on 1st annual Santa Pub Crawl! Six Santas who all staggered around Downtown Pasadena using witty lines like:
“Do you want to sit on Santa’s lap and tell him what you want for Christmas?”
and
“Hos Hos Hos”

The night [...]

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