Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone is having a nice Thanksgiving. I am thankful for actually having a day off. In the near future I will write a post that updates my past seven months as head of my department. After five relatively normal months the past two have been brutal.

I am thankful for many things today: a wonderful wife and three great children; a mother, a sister and three brothers who are still around; friends in my regular life and many online friends; a life where most things seemed to have worked out pretty well.

Today will be spent eating a traditional turkey dinner, watching The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II and football, and likely making a Black Friday midnight trip to Kohls's -- hopefully my only Black Friday shopping trip this season.

One week from today I will be in Las Vegas for the WPBT weekend and general mucking around in poker rooms. I can't wait!