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I want to wish all 3? of you that visit my website a wonderful Thanksgiving!  This is probably one of the best holidays of the year.   It hasn’t been taken over by commercialism, or at least not as much as every other holiday.  It’s all about family and being thankful for what you have.  And on top of that, you get to stuff yourself full of turkey, stuffing, potatoes, pie, etc. without any remorse! … Maybe.

The LAN Party was a big success.  We had 19 or 20 people in the house playing Team Fortress 2, mainly.  We even had Garrett and Justin playing from home here and there.  It was a blast.  We mixed in some WAR and the Left 4 Dead demo when we had the chance.  I’m still looking for the owner of a jacket that was left, if it is one of you 3, let me know.

I have been working on a new project lately.  It is a website for my swim team.  It is coming along quite nicely.  I’m using an open source content management system, Joomla. For someone like me, that isn’t a web developer, it makes it VERY easy to setup a website.  There is a fairly large community that creates modules and plugins for the software as well.  That is really where open source shines.  I use an older version of Joomla for one of our websites at work, so I had a little bit of background with it going in.

November LAN 2008 is approaching!  The crew is coming to our house again this year.  The plan is to play the hell out of TF2, once again.  They will be in for a surprise when they see the basement, as it is under a serious construction project right now. I’m putting in a full bathroom and a bedroom/office.  There will also be a large “living room” area for kids playing, home theatre, etc.  It will be awesome when it is done… in 6 months.

We are getting closer and closer to the baby’s due date.  I have moved the bed from our guest bedroom upstairs into the office room.  I have some furniture to move still and then we can start getting the painting and such underway for the baby room.  We have a nice train-themed decoration set for the room.  We are looking forward to getting it all ready.