No year end retrospective, nor year forward prognostications. Merely thanks for a good year. I've been blessed with health, happiness, a wonderful child, wife, family, food in my belly, roof over my head. Life is good. Worked a lot this week. Almost overnight Monday to get something done. Otherwise, it was nice and quiet most of the time. Crumbs opened up, and I feel sorry for The Cupcake Counter down the street. Strange to have 2 cupcake bakeries, in the Loop, pretty much across the street (Franklin) on Madison. But got a mini sampler pack from Crumbs, and I gotta admit, they were good. Actually reminded me of the old Cupcakes place down on Barry, when I got introduced to the whole cupcake craze. Saw brothers-in-law Tuesday night, picked up Del Seoul on the way over to Mike's. Been surprised that Lucy's sleeping as well as she is with her schedule all over the place. Went out to the Argaos today for dinner, but had to come back in since Tracy's working tomorrow. Oh, I've also returned to Redbox. Figured out that Netflix isn't cheaper. I only get about 6 DVDs a month through Netflix, which doesn't quite make up the $1/dvd through Redbox. Watch Instantly could be worth the extra $4, but not sure. Netflix is good for catalog titles, while Redbox is great for new releases. So I'll do both for a while, until I run out of old movies to get from Netflix, which, if I did the math correctly, will be in 2 years with the current size of my queue.