The Hilton Chronicle

Thursday, November 25, 2004

Yule Time Approacheth

I'm just in the process of loading and installing software on Dianne's new computer which I picked up yesterday. It's running on an AMD Sempron processor at about 2 mghz which is a far cry faster than the 90 mghz the old Pentium machine was. It was a long time coming but the ol' gal is finally being put out to pasture. So while I wait for software to load up I will make a few notes here.
Ralph Klein is back in his office at the Leg after a rather sweeping victory on Monday, although the city of Edmonton has turned mostly red which is something the premiere should note very carefully. There's not as many PC's in office any more.
Still having great weather here. No snow yet and fairly decent temps. We may just get another brown Christmas.
I took advantage of the great weather to do the annual hauling out of the Christmas lights yesterday. Everything looks good there. And in a surprise departure from tradition, we are planning to buy ourselves (wait for it)...a fake tree! this year. I finally got tired of having to haul a real one in and out of the house, dropping it's needles everywhere, wrestle to get it up and fill the base with water and all the rest of it. They've some nice artificial trees at Costco for $80 this year so I think we're going to get one. Then it's just a matter of getting the Christmas shopping done. Oh joy!