dont i know its early for this kind of

Don't I know it's early for this kind of talk...

But what the dang-it-all heck? Here is the first installment of my

Midwestern-folk might call it a Christmas List... but who knows what

other kinds of Holidays are out there, that I never even realized?

Share your holiday with me... send prezents... Ha ha!

So my good buddy in California taught me how to play backgammon whilst

I was on vacation. At the toy store, there was a little travel

backgammon set, which I now covet. Yes, fellow Christian Soldiers, I

understand fully the weight of my words. Can anyone imagine breaking a

Commandment just for a tiny purse-sized, handled and zippered, box of

strategy-and-glee? Well yes my fine furry friends.... Indeed I have

broken commandment #10 (and although a travel-backgammon set is not my

neighbor's wife... if it *was* my neighbor's wife, I would covet it...

so I'm guilty).

Can you imagine me (speaker-out-er against online game-playing,

chatting with those I don't know), furtively waiting for an opponent

in Social Lounge 8 on Yahoo? It's disgusting. My buddy's workplace is

such that he can-nae play at the office. Suck-a-ledge. So I'm wholly

leaping into my new passion, by reading everything ever written on the

subject. (Anyone ever pick up a book on the "sport"? Dry reading, but

if you use your pea-brain, it's amazing the things you can learn and

imagine and ! stra-TEE-gee).