Here’s what I got for Christmas

As usual, I cleaned up at Christmas. Truth is, I clean up on most things in life. I’ve got to be the luckiest bloke in the world, with the family I’ve got, the friends I’ve got, the co-workers I’ve got, the job I’ve got.

Anyway, I received two gifts that will help immensely on the work side.

1. I’m typing this blog sitting in my new desk chair. For the past six months, my desk chair has been broken. I’d taken to working in the living room, at the coffee table, which wasn’t conducive to good organization, so I went back to my office and sat in the broken chair until two weeks ago, when I literally tipped over sideways, in slow motion, still in the chair. So I moved in an old wooden chair, with a Yankee seat cushion my nephew brought me from the Stadium earlier this year.

But my daughter and son-in-law gave me a lovely new desk chair, cushioned on bottom and back, so that I’m completely comfortable as I sit typing this at 3:30 a.m., unable to sleep because of a bad cold. I will use this chair literally thousands of hours a year.

2. From my wife, I got a DVR for my bedroom television.

DVR has changed my television viewing and my schedule in important ways. I no longer have to juggle my schedule around games I need to watch but not necessarily immediately.