First off, Happy New Year!  I figure, wherever you may be, you should have rolled over into 2008 by now, so welcome to the new year.  Pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable — hopefully the show will be good.

It’s Tuesday night.  We got back from our Aruban Family Vacation (AFV) about midnight Sunday night (which is to say, about 12am Monday morning, if you can dig that).

Have you been to Aruba?  It’s a lovely, beautiful, picturesque island where the water is this magical kind of blue you only see on The Discovery Channel or in your dreams.

It’s also a big, damned strip mall (nothing is perfect, eh) and the “service”, and that is a term I’ll use loosely, often leaves something to be desired.

Over the course of seven days on the lovely island (really, it’s nice — just because it’s not for me doesn’t mean it’s not lovely), I had exactly one meal come “right” on the first try.  One meal in seven days.  That can wear on one’s patience and I assure you it did.

Still, even with that, I think overall a good time was had.  It’s great to be back, though, even if it is cold and rainy.