Happy 2005! It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 2 years since I first began this blog site. Looking back last winter, this year’s holidays have been comparatively slow as Boston was blanketed by a foot of snow. For Christmas, my parents spent a quiet weekend at my apartment, while Melody went back home to Stockton. Half the lab’s been missing too, making for a relatively slow week at work. After having to spend New Year’s Eve working, Melody and I chilled out for the rest of this weekend with a bit of pool at Boston Billiards and some Northern Chinese cuisine at Shangri-La. We also took the car out to a nearby Scrub-A-Dub as a treat for surviving its first Boston snowstorm. Our first self-serve car wash experience got a bit more wet ‘n wild than we had hoped, but nevertheless left the car sparkling clean as we ring in the new year.