Happy new year!

Hard to believe that it's 2010 already. The last year flew by, faster than I would have liked. As I sat reflecting on what happened in the past year, well, a lot has happened. A lot of travel, some work, life changes and a lot of fun. I'm too tired to get introspective right now, maybe I'll get to that later.

We rang in the new year with our friends over in Hilo in very mellow fashion: dinner and some wine. Jimmy and I played Wii MarioCart (my first Wii experience) while the ladies chatted. A movie went in ("The Fall") and was paused for the midnight. And the fusillade of artillery outside. Of course there were small fireworks going off constantly all around us for at least an hour. Peppered in among the smaller noises were loud thundering booms. Since they sounded off across the way we've no idea what they were. They didn't sound like the legally purchased fireworks, that's for sure. Good times!