As you can see above, Sam thoroughly enjoyed his first Channukah. He was very excited about the paper, and even more so by the cute Gund doggie inside who his promptly began to spontaneously hug. More pics of the Sagan and Handelman’s from Sarasota here.
In a stunning blow to Red Sox Nation, the evil empire scooped up Johnny D. last night. 
Say it ain’t so, somebody? The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy sums it up this way:
So now your Boston Red Sox have no center fielder, no shortstop, and no first baseman to go along with no Theo Epstein and no clue. It’s fair to say this is becoming a winter of discontent in Red Sox Nation.
Ah, there is trouble in Beantown, and no savoir in sight. How could the front office have let Johnny Damon go? I can only hope the Braves pickup of BoSox refugee Edgar Renteria gives my other fave team some help in 2006 with Furcal heading to the Dodgers.
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To complement our spiffy new HDTV, I managed to find an Xbox360 on eBay for not-too-high a premium. JoeBobATLThe Fedex guy came a day earlier than the tracking said it would (who knew that was even possible), and I was like a kid on the first night of Hannukkah as the delivery dude came up the front steps. In a word, the image this thing produces on the SXRD is stunning. I had picked up Project Gotham Racing, Madden 2006 and Kameo – and every one of them is just mind bogglingly beautiful. PGR is especially slick – driving the streets of NYC and seeing the skyline come hurtling toward you, driving past the casinos of Las Vegas by your headlights – all the while seeing true-to-life reflections and dirt on your windscreen. I’ve also partially hooked this up to our Dell PC running Media Center Edition 2005. I did have to update it to this year’s patch, but once I did, the two machines saw each other easily. Now I can get photos, video and music from my desktop on the Sony in the living room. Spiffy! Embedded here in this post is my XboxLive ‘GamerCard’ that shows my current reputation, score and ‘zone’, whatever that is. It will also show any games I’ve gone online with.
