In the past few weeks a lot has happened both on the job and in my personal life. As many of you have now noticed, the holiday season is upon us which means many things to many people. To me, it means cold nights covering night time parades, Christmas light displays and the occasional sporting event.
One interesting side note (or at least interesting to me)... Earlier this month I went to the local library in search of newspaper front pages from the day of and day after the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor back in 1941. As you can imagine, there aren't many newspapers from the '40's just hanging around, however, the local media centers here in Nampa and Caldwell have a pretty extensive collection of old newspaper Microfilms.
Until a week ago I had never used a microfilm machine and when the time finally came, I have to say, I was pretty darn impressed. Something about flipping through newspaper headlines from famous dates in American history left me with an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia. Kind of hard to believe that these machines were once believed to be a high-tech.
As previously mentioned, my personal life has had a recent development that I think is worth noting. For the past, oh say 18 years I have wanted a dog and for as long as I can remember my parents have always responded to these wishes with the phrase... "When you move out you can get your own". So after careful calculation and consideration (and nearly 6 years of living on my own) I adopted a dog.
His name is "Buddy". The name is pretty cliche and common but it has a little bit of meaning to me. Aside from the fact that this dog is in fact my buddy, he shares the name of my grandfather, Charles Litchfield's recently deceased Collie "Buddy". While riding the fence on whether or not to take this dog home with me I realized the similarity and thought it was just to serendipitous to pass on.
He absolutely lives to play fetch and is happy in his kennel as long as he has a selection of tennis balls to gnaw on. He minds very well and shows affection to anyone and everyone. To be honest, I couldn't have asked for a better dog.
So that's that. The holiday break is coming up and I am very excited to get some much needed time away from work. My hope is to spend some time with my family at my sister's home in Logan, Utah, which will hopefully mean a few days of skiing in "The Greatest Snow on Earth".
