My Tripod web site has hit the 3,900 mark this week for hits. It now means that the countdown to 4,000 has begun and right now at the moment a tie needs to be broken for favorite joyous Christmas song. This poll has been up since December 9th.

The upstairs bathroom paint job done by my father is now complete. Formerly yellow color, it is now blue. I took a shower, which is downstairs in our basement in recent days. My mother does her cleaning from there. Don't worry, she is using a portable heater placed outside of the shower. Let's say this much, after a paint job you feel like you are in a different room.

There has been a change of plans of holiday weekend visitation from Marlene. She and her family will be in Friday night, originally it was going to be Saturday, but there was changes, the original plans were to also celebrate Christmas this day, but that will now be Sunday because David has a ball game on Saturday. By the way, the Steelers will be playing Thursday night against the St. Louis Rams. There is a distinct possibility that you will have to cross into West Alexander (PA) to view the game on KDKA Thursday night. Reportedly, KDKA which is the CBS affiliate in Pittsburgh and is carried on cable systems in Wheeling, has to be shown in the counties in the Pittsburgh TV market by rule of the NFL Network which actually it will be televised by.

The next 2 days will find lunch at work, not home. Our Departments Holiday Party is Thursday and the Bank Plaza's Holiday Luncheon is Friday.

David's 1987 Bridge Street Junior High Graduating class is mourning the death of a seventh classmate this week since the 1990 Wheeling Park Graduation when Russell Huntsman died on Monday. He left a behind his parents and a sister who married 1988 Wheeling Park Graduate Brad Dierkes