Christmas was a good excuse to make a cheesy little banner graphic and call it an update. I hope everyone out there had a good holiday with their families and/or loved ones. In the gifts department, I got the usual array of books, scores, and CDs, and some minor extras. Other than doing some updates to the URI! Domain and internal pages, I've done very little productive so far. I've timed it so that I'll reach maximum boredom (and thus, maximum productivity) during that first week of January when I'm back in Tallahassee. I plan on doing lots of practicing and score editing before school starts.

Things still seem to be on track for the Gator Bowl. I'll be leaving Virginia and its cheap gas early Friday morning, and my old Tech brethren will be staying at my place the night of the 30th before we all head into Jacksonville together. Nikki's dad is ex-military, and was able to get an extremely inexpensive deal on a room at a military base for the lot of us.