here. ;)
-d
----- Original Message -----
From: "Haggerty, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 9:34 AM
Subject: RE: Fun New Year's Eve
> We had a fun New Years.
>
> The young daughter and I stayed up until midnight, then celebrated with
> some nice, safe sparkling apple cider. She started jumping on my bed
> with the cider raised in the air, and suddenly let go of the bottle. It
> broke on my dresser mirror, covered the room is glass, and soaked
> clothes in the top three drawers of the dresser. Managed to avoid
> stepping on anything that would have sent me to the emergency room and
> my first task of 2004 became cleaning apple cider out of the walls. Plus
> I got to do laundry until 4 AM.
>
> On New Years day, we have a tradition. Mr. New Years visits us on his
> flying disco ball of deals to bestow heavily discounted gifts and prizes
> we didn't get for Christmas. The Polly Pocket Designer Fashion Mall my
> daughter wanted, which cost $50 on Christmas Eve, was marked down to
> $14.99. The $60 dress she wanted from the Limited Too was now on
> clearance, and I got it for like $9. Old Navy was going with $5 shirts
> and $10 jeans, which I took advantage of to great extent. The 20GB iPod,
> which was $299 at Hecht's on Christmas Eve, was still $299, which didn't
> bother me because the thing is engineered to die after 18 months. But
> Best Buy had a 40GB Rio (I think) player that was going for $249, and I
> picked that up for $129 on a 1-day special (of course, being the kind
> and benevolent father I am, I gave this to my daughter). Also, I found
> an ATI 5700 with 128MB onboard RAM and a coupon for a free copy of
> Half-Life 2 going for $129, but I passed on it.
>
> Bottom Line: I bought merchandise that was valued at close to $500 on
> Christmas Eve for less than $280.
>
> M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 5:17 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Fun New Year's Eve
>
>
> hi gang,
> hope everyone had a fun New Year's Eve.
> we did!
> something quite different for us -
> went out to dinner overlooking the Bay,
> then 11pm concert at Kimball's East jazz club (Emeryville, next to
> Oakland)
> trumpeter named Rick Braun
> really cute - at a quiet part his 3-yr-old in the audience kept yelling
> "Hi Daddy" until he answered her :-)
> he started the show entering from behind the crowd with a wireless mike
> on his trumpet, walked through the place playing until he got to the
> stage. fun.
> excellent sax, guitar, bass, drums, keyboard players, let them do long
> solos.
> I have a picture of him standing on the chair next to me playing at one
> point!!
> They passed out hats, noisemakers, champagne for midnight. Really
> enjoyed, got a bit emotional about surviving into the new year :-)
> We had booked a room 1/2 mile away, fell into bed, came home after
> brekkie.
> -Ben
>
>
>
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