2008’s first Christmas joke, a low-key day at the office, and off to Jacksonville w/Robert…


2008’s First Christmas Joke


Three men died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the pearly gates.

“In honor of this holy season” Saint Peter said, “You must each possess something that symbolizes Christmas to get into heaven.”

The first man fumbled through his pockets and pulled out a lighter. He flicked it on. “It represents a candle,” he said.

“You may pass through the pearly gates,” Saint Peter said.

The second man reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of keys. He shook them and said, “They’re bells.”

Saint Peter said, “You may pass through the pearly gates.”

The third man started searching desperately through his pockets and finally pulled out a pair of ladies’ panties.

St. Peter looked at the man with a raised eyebrow and asked, “And just what do those symbolize?”

The man replied, “These are Carols.”

And So The Christmas Season Begins ……


It was a quiet day in the office today.

I worked with Ed on his antivirus announcement, and I worked on Mariela’s and BJ’s Drupal migration project—updating the project status tasks and e-mail to various parties about the content types we’ve settled on.

I gathered a bunch of stuff to take home to work on two projects over the holiday to earn some comp time to make up for time away during my China trip.


Robert arrived at around 5:00, and after a quick dinner at Hardee’s we headed to Jacksonville, arriving at about 8:00PM.

We listened to mom’s stories until 11:00, at which time I turned on Will & Grace, and we watched two episodes of that.

Most memorable lines:

Will to Jack: “No, I’m not gay.”

Jack, lifting a vinyl album out of Will’s stack: “Your totally warn out copy of Dreamgirls begs to differ.”

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