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I had a great holiday. I took two full weeks off work to hang out at home, attend a wedding, visit family, go shopping and just read and relax. It was awesome and it went by way too quickly. Some of the highlights:

I now have a fence for my backyard. Now I can actually sit out on my deck and enjoy myself and not feel like I'm on display. It's nice and there's still enough summer left to enjoy it. Plus I can take advantage of all the end-of-season sales to plan next year's back yard transformation. Yay!

The euphoria that the Rider Nation is feeling in the wake of the football team's performance in 2008 has been silenced somewhat after one of the more horrible days for the organization in recent memory. It was bad enough to hear Matt Dominguez's football career is likely over after he suffered yet another major knee injury---his 3rd since becoming a Rider and it got worse upon hearing Ron Lancaster is about to fight a battle with lung cancer. Dominguez is one of the current greats and I don't have to tell you what Ronnie means to Rider fans. Both men have a battle in front of them.

In what can only be charitably described as its usual self-justifying claptrap, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is now trying a little of its own historical revisionism even before the summer Olympics begins in Beijing.