Winter is coming early with temperatures in the 30's for the first week. December 1st was the day of the assembly for the Fun Run results at the kids' school where they each were awarded a t-shirt, a medallion, and a pizza party all thanks to the generous donations of friends and family (as well as some help from Intel's donation matching program). Thanks again to all those who donated to help the school's PTO raise money to pay for field trips, projects, the science fair, and other school events. Also, because Ellen and Phoebe were each in the top 12 fund raisers, they got to have a limo ride with the principal and event organizers out to breakfast. They were really excited to ride in there. Because of all the piano stuff this weekend, we were able to get the girls into their teacher earlier that week to give them more time to prepare. That meant they they were able to go to their chess club on Thursday which they don't normally get to do. Friday morning when I rode my bike into work, it was 27 degrees. I had to leave my water bottle's spigot open because when I closed it after my first drink, it had frozen shut. Friday afternoon was the group lesson for piano so everyone could practice their Christmas songs in front of the group. Jada said that Ellen got really frustrated with her songs because even though she's been practicing them, she is still making a lot of mistakes. Phoebe was also pausing a lot, so we had both girls do some practice before dinner. That night Jada went up to the hospital to see Laurie’s new baby, born the day before. I teased her about whether she was planning to return at all that night!
Saturday morning, the girls participated in a practice chess tournament. They both had fun, but they were a little disappointed in how they did. They were both playing at the intermediate level, and I'm not sure I can even compete at that level. Even though they said that they didn't do well, I couldn't tell when they left the table if they had won or lost because they always seemed to be smiling while bouncing over to the table to be paired up for the next match. In the afternoon, we made the drive to the Oregon Music Teachers Association State Ensemble Festival at the Linn Benton Community College in Albany, OR. Ellen and Phoebe performed their duet that won them honors at the region ensemble competition. They played in a session with 9 other performances and 17 performers. They played on an auditorium stage on a 9 foot Yamaha concert grand piano. Most of the performers shared one piano, but the last performance used both the Yamaha and a 9 foot Steinway on the stage side by side. Ellen and Phoebe played their piece flawlessly as did everyone else. There was only one other duet with kids in grade school. All of the others were in middle or high school. I don't know how some of them have time for anything else because there were kids participating in 2 different duets (one boy was in 3) of 5 to 8 minutes in length. It was really impressive to watch them play. As each performer left the stage, they collected their medal and certificate. The girls were both very proud. We didn't get home until after bed time.
Sunday was very windy and cold, but at least it was sunny. We did the usual errands in the morning finished off by visiting Gramma. They have a 5 foot baby grand in their open area, and this time the girls remembered to bring their piano music. Phoebe played her Christmas song followed by both performing their duet again. Then Ellen played her Christmas songs. The folks there seemed to appreciate it, and many of them thanked the girls for their play. When we got home, I found that Scarlett had gotten her collar off. Instead of running away from me when I tried to put it on, she came toward me and let me do it. In sports news, I saw in the paper this morning that Greg Oden is down again with another knee injury. The Blazers are already ravaged by injuries to many key plays and their head coach who injured himself while trying to fill out a 5 on 5 scrimmage squad during practice. I think they'll actually do ok for a while with Przybilla back in the starting lineup. Roy and Aldridge will have more room to move. It's mostly disappointing because Oden had been playing so well finally after 3 years of injuries. But back to our family. Phoebe made her bed all by herself for the first time. Then it was off to the holiday piano recital. The girls both did their pieces well which had been a point of worry based on the rough practices for the last month. Ellen had a bit of a freeze at the start of her first one, but she recovered to finish. She was a little sore about it afterwards still. However, she also did a great job sitting through the remaining hour plus of the recital. Phoebe came and sat with us, and she was quite squirrelly. I was supposed to bring crushed Oreo's and 7-up for the ice cream social after the recital, but I left both on the counter at home. Fortunately, there was a convenience store across the street from the church where the recital was held. We were home by dinner time and got the kids to bed on time. Then Jada and I worked on getting our Christmas cards put together.
Monday was cold. I rode my bike to work anyway. The temperature was around 22 degrees, but with the wind chill it was 11 degrees. I'm not going to lie to you, there was some ice in my bottle by the time I got to work. I layered well, though, so only my face was cold until I got out of the cross-wind and warmed up. I'm having trouble with my front derailleur again where I can shift up to my big front ring, but I can't shift back down again. I stopped by Jada's BEA office on the way home to pick up the girls to drive them home while Jada had arranged for a ride home with someone. She really does try to make sure I get to ride as often as possible. I still think I'm going to come up just short of my 4000 mile goal. I can think back to a hand full of days where I could have ridden and didn't because I was feeling lazy. I guess I'll have to carry it forward to next year. I rode to work again Tuesday (18F) and Wednesday (10F). My bottle froze every time by the time I got to work. On Tuesday afternoon, the girls finally got a chance to meet Laurie’s new baby. Phoebe declined holding him and instead spent all her time setting up his room. Ellen, however, was overjoyed to hold Hollister. She barely moved while she held him and stared at him most of the time.
Just for reference for me, I used the following layers to withstand the cold: smartwool socks, normal cycling shoes, Performance neoprene shoe covers, Performance triflex tights (the tights with chamois ended up being not warm enough), performance ultra bib shorts under the tights, Nike dryfit base wicking layer, Pearl Izumi or Performance mid-weight jacket, Pearl Izumi heavy jersey or Performance Illuminite wind stopper fleece, Pearl Izumi balaclava, Performance skull cap, and helmet.
Wednesday afternoon, I got a call from Jada to tell me that water was pouring from the ceiling in the garage. The pipe that leads to the outside front water spigot must have frozen. I hadn't finished the job I had started on Sunday to put the caps on and bleed the pipes to the external spouts, and I am going to pay for it. Everything in the garage was drenched. When I got home from work, I wiped down the quad to make sure the couplers wouldn't corrode and draped it in a towel. I also tried to sweep the floor. I stayed home from work on Thursday to try to get a plumber out to fix the pipe. I called a couple different places until I could find one that could come out that day. He showed up around noon. It was sunny and maybe around 30 degrees while he was working. I spent the time doing some more cleanup in the garage. We're storing Gramma's furniture and old clothes. The couch got a bit damp, but it could have been worse. The boxes of clothes were completely drenched. (Jada went through to clean and sort these, before donating them to Goodwill.) A box of my old awards and things got soaked too. I haven't gone through to assess the damage yet. I guess I don't really need those old certificates and things any more really. If I haven't looked at the box in over 5 years, chances are I can live without it. I found that my tool drawers were full of water along with tool box, so I spilled those out and put the tools on a towel in the garage to dry. Since it was still below freezing outside, where ever I spilled the water froze pretty quickly. I had to throw out a lot of emergency supplies that we keep in the garage as well (TP, kleenex, etc). Any cardboard boxes were pretty much unsalvageable, so we'll need to invest in some plastic tubs. I had been saving some boxes for shipping Christmas presents, and they were soaked too (along with wrapping paper). It took the guy about an hour and half. The pipe burst it's fitting, but luckily it was only one 8 foot section. The vertical pipe that fed the outside spigot had frozen water in it, so we weren't able to drain everything out of the line. Later in the afternoon when the sun had been shining on that wall for a while I was able to get some water out. I went to the Home Depot to pick up some shop lights to put up in the crawl space above the garage to provide a little extra heat until the cold snap ends on a suggestion from the plumber. I also got a cover for the spigot. I couldn't get anyone out to look at the damage to garage ceiling that day, and I couldn't stay home on Friday. I made an appointment for Monday afternoon to get some estimates to get the work done. Maybe I'll take this opportunity to finally fix the lights in the garage too. On Thursday night, Ellen had her Holiday Program at school. She along with the 2nd and 3rd grade kids did the performance of about 12 Christmas and Hanukah songs. Afterwards, we chatted with the other parents that we knew. It was just like when I was a kid, and we knew that even though mom and dad said it was time to go, we knew we still had a while before we actually had to go because of the talking.
Friday night, Phoebe had a holiday party to attend, so Jada and Ellen picked me up from work (I rode in the morning when it was 11degrees) and we went out to eat at a place called Bugatti's. I didn't like it as well as some other Italian restaurants we've been to.
Saturday morning was supposed to see snow or freezing rain, but luckily nothing much happened. It was dry when I went to the gym in the early morning, and the whole time I hung the lights. It misted a bit as we got ready for the ornament party. But nothing substantial, and what was there, didn't freeze around our streets. We still don't have a tree so we're borrowing the fake one that we put up in Gramma's apartment for the last few years. The temperature actually got into the mid to upper 30's, and even though it was a bit rainy, it didn't freeze. We had scheduled 3 different times for the ornament party this year. We had two times scheduled for friends of the girls so we could make it convenient for the parents to drop off and pick up if they needed to get away for some shopping. The 3rd time was for family friends, but we only had one confirmation for that time, so we consolidated into the second time. We had 10 kids (not counting Ellen and Phoebe) for the first session, and 10 kids + 2 adult helpers for the second time. Everyone seemed to have a good time. We learned some new crafts and the kids all got to bring home lots of ornaments. The time seemed to fly by. We were able to fit in an hour visit to Gramma in the afternoon before going to eat at a small family place called the Fresh Grill. It turns out that the little strip mall place they are in is also inhabited by the Plaid Pantry. The lawyers for the Plaid Pantry have ordered the Fresh Grill's lease revoked immediately (after being in the location for over 2 years) because they sell bottled sodas out of a cooler that you can take to go similar to what you might find in a Plaid Pantry. They see this is a violation of the lease to not compete. Did I mention that it is a single cooler that holds maybe 30 bottles of soda and juice boxes compared to the Plaid Pantries walls of refrigerators? No one is sure why they are forcing out this small business, but my hunch is that the pub next door wants to expand, so they're looking for excuses to get them out. So the Plaid Pantry is putting 7 people with families out of work right before Christmas. You stay classy, Plaid Pantry.
Sunday morning we awoke to freezing fog. The roads were a bit slick as we started our morning errands, but we didn't have too much trouble getting around as long as we were cautious around corners. We hit 4 places for our grocery shopping plus PetSmart for cat food and litter in an hour and a half. Luckily it was around freezing, so we weren't too worried about the cold stuff. We went over to Gramma's nursing home for a holiday party in the afternoon. They had hired a piano player and had a buffet of food. Everyone is so nice there. When we got home, it was almost dinner time. Jada had made chili and corn bread, so we all got to have some yummy dinner too. Ellen has found that she likes chili.
By Monday morning, we were back to more traditional Oregon weather with lows in the upper 30's and highs in the 40's and 50's. I stayed home again this time to talk to a contractor about repairing the damage from the pipe break. I was able to work from home since all my meetings are phone meetings anyway. After agreeing on the work and cost, I scheduled the work for the following Monday. That night began our cookie-making rampage. We decided kind of at the last minute to at least make our 2 favorite cookies to pass out to the teachers - chocolate crinkles and peanut butter balls. So we started those on Monday, and worked on them Tuesday and Wednesday nights to get the orders filled. Tuesday night I had a basketball game, and I managed to hurt myself. We went to a full court press for the entire second half, and at one point, I stopped to change direction really fast and jammed my left big toe into the front of my shoe. I'm probably going to lose that nail...again. Wednesday was the passport program at the girl's school so I did that in the morning. Friday was the last day of school before the holiday break. Jada continued to visit her mom every day at the nursing home sometimes taking the girls along after school to attend one of the activities in the afternoons. It is so nice that she is close by. We are happy that she is getting such great care, too!
Saturday was a very busy day. After grocery shopping and visiting Gramma, we attended the Nutcracker Tea. The girls enjoyed it again. We had perfect seats for it. They were completely unobstructed. Since we were at the 2pm show, there were a lot of kids there, but most were well behaved. The girls got to wear their nice poofy dresses, so they were happy. This was followed immediately by my Goddaughter Elsa's viola recital out in east Portland. She played Handel's Sonata in D, 3rd Movement terrifically. It was amazing to watch her play. It's been a while since I've had the time to attend one of her recitals. We had to leave right after that performance to make it back across town for a holiday party at a friend's house. We kept the girls out way too late, but we had fun. I met and had a chance to talk with some more parents from the school that I see all the time.
On Sunday morning through early afternoon, we spent most of the time prepping the garage for the work that needs to be done on Monday to repair the ceiling. Of course, the people who we're donating Jada's mom's furniture to couldn't pick it up before Monday, so we had to try to shove it all against the back wall as far as possible. I'll have to put the bikes out in the rain as it is during the work since they are going to be bringing a lift in to get the pieces in place. I found some of the boxes above the garage were also a little damp, so at some point we'll have to go through those as well. In the afternoon, we went over to the nursing home to visit Gram, and they also were expecting Santa Claus. He showed up with carolers. So that was fun. We hung out in the main meeting area near the piano, and the carolers came to us after walking down the halls. Jada found where they kept some puzzles and set the girls up with them on a table there so that Gramma could feel like she was interacting with them more. We ended up being there for over 2 hours.
Monday morning was rainy, which was super convenient since I had to put the bikes out of the garage to get the work done. (Mmmm. I do love the smell of sarcasm in the morning). I worked from home so I could be around to answer questions, and all of my meetings are phone meetings anyway on Mondays. He got the whole thing finished, but he couldn't put in the drop ladder for the attic due to space restrictions on the opening and the location of the light fixture. I can have an electrician come out and replace the overhead lamps, and have them moved over about a foot so I can put in the access to the attic. I have no idea when I'll get around to that though. The girls went to visit Gramma and see an accordion player. They thought that was pretty cool because it was like a piano with buttons on the other end. Jada also accompanied Laurie and Hollister downtown so that Laurie could get a massage and Jada could get some “baby time.” We also found someone to take Flower, so we rushed out to get a Christmas tree. We got one for only $10 at Haggens since we bought it within a few days of Christmas. I might have to do that every year. (Jada says "No Way!") Tuesday Jada took the girls around to finish up some shopping, get things donated, and generally clean out the garage. Phoebe had a cookie-decorating party to attend in the afternoon. I was originally going to take Flower out to her new home at 5:30pm, so I didn't ride to work. Then during the day, though, the person who is going to take her said he couldn't be home until later. Another wasted opportunity since I only have 40 miles left to hit my goal of 4000 miles. In the evening, I took Flower out to her new home. They are a very nice family with 2 small children who adored her. They have a horse farm, so Flower will have lots of space to run. As much as we loved her, I think she'll be very happy there. The girls will be disappointed to find out that I got to see all the horses. When I got home, I had to get right to work putting up the tree which didn't take too long. Scarlett was very confused with losing her sister and then having a tree in the front room. At least she didn't try to climb it immediately. The next morning, we found her sleeping under the tree. She seems to be doing ok.
On Wednesday, I rode my bike to work in the freezing fog. The streets were ok, but around work, it looked like a winter wonderland with the trees all frosted. Jada and girls decorated the Christmas tree, and went over to visit Gram. In the evening, I left work early so I'd have time to get home to head over to our friend's house for a Festivus dinner. Ok, it wasn't really Festivus, it was a post Hannukah dinner. It was just on the same day as Festivus (for the rest of us). We had the traditional Jewish meal elements featuring the oh so good latkes, plus some yummy beef and gravy followed by a game of dreidel. Thursday was Christmas Eve day. The ride into work was mostly uneventful while still foggy until I got within 2 miles of the campus. Suddenly, there was a quarter inch of what I can only describe as deep frost like you might find in your freezer. The road where the cars were driving was very slick as I watched cars slide to a stop at the stop lights. Luckily, I seem to have been the first person riding a bike on the bike lane since I didn't have the problem with compaction followed by refreezing. I just made sure to slow down a lot before taking the corners. It was very much like I had ridden into a snowglobe that contained my campus at the middle. Some at work described it as the Factory Effect because our factory puts out a lot of moisture into the air because we use a lot of heated water in our processes. Luckily it burned off and was clear and sunny by the time I left work around 4pm. In the mean time, Jada picked up my Cinnabons before Papa came over to visit. It had been while since they had seen him. The girls were excited about the music boxes he brought them. Then Jada, Ellen, and Phoebe went over to see Gramma where they were hosting yet another Christmas party. This time it was a pajama party (though not a pajama jammy jam, I was told when asked) with carolers who sang carols from different parts of the world. They did songs in Greek, Arabic, and English. In the evening, Jada made us a wonderful feast of ham, roasted yams, green bean casserole, and even pumpkin pie. We tracked Santa's progress on the NORAD web site, read T'was the Night Before Christmas and the Polar Express, and sang carols. Ellen learned "Good King Winceslas" on the piano and Phoebe learned "Little Drummer Boy" on the guitar to play that evening. Jada played "Silent Night", and I played "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Blue Christmas".
Finally, it was Christmas morning. We had some oatmeal and Cinnabons before letting the girls go in to open presents. It was a nice year. They got lots of books and games to keep them occupied. It was a cold but sunny morning. We were able to call Nana and Bapa after the packages were all opened. Jada prepared yet another wonderful brunch of quiche, pancakes, and smoothies. How she continues to do it all, I don't know. All I did while she was doing that was laundry and played a few songs from my new Beatles music book. We visited Gram in the afternoon. The girls played their Christmas songs, and Phoebe played her guitar for "Little Drummer Boy". I played a few selections as well. We were there for 2 hours. We came home so I could get started on making pizza for dinner. After dinner we played our Christmas songs one last time around the piano. Jada and I finished off our Christmas by watching A Christmas Story.
Saturday morning, I couldn't sleep so I decided to go ahead and go to the gym at 3:55am by the bedside clock. To my great disappointment, it wasn't open yet. I thought they'd open up in the afternoon of Christmas day so people could go in and start working off the holiday meals, but I was wrong. So I went back home and tried to go back to sleep which I eventually did. I got out of bed again at 6:15am to make breakfast. I was able to warm up the yummy quiche so breakfast was fast, and we got out to do our grocery shopping. We got a visit to Gramma in just before lunch. Gramma gave the girls her gift for them, and in the afternoon, we spent time at Powell's picking out books from money that was gotten as gifts. The girls each picked out their own books. I replaced a bike repair book that was destroyed when the pipe burst in the garage, and Jada found a book that she thought I was getting her. I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out how to use the new software for my video camera so I could make the DVD's. As it turns out, I was a little over 1 DVD, so I split it into 2. The other half of the night was spent with a Comcast customer service rep. Our DVR suddenly was claiming to be full after we hadn't recorded anything new. They had me reset it, and it wiped out my recordings and schedules all in one fell swoop. "That shouldn't have happened", of course. Maybe it's time for TIVO. So I lost all of the Scrubs that I hadn't watched yet, and was still on the fence about. So maybe it was a blessing in disguise there. It seemed like it was back on its way to working again, but we'll find out Sunday night for sure since we don't turn the TV on otherwise during the day. Sunday we went out for breakfast at our favorite place and stopped by to see Gramma, but she was asleep. We went again in the afternoon to see her after lunch. We spent some time there chatting and working on the big puzzle. Jada and the girls have become quite well known around there since they come every day. So they've made some friends with residents and some of the folks who work there. The rest of the afternoon, we spent doing things around the house. The girls cleaned their playroom, put away laundry, and made their beds so after dinner we could play one of our new games. Tonight, we played the game Jada got from Santa called Bananagrams. It's sort of a Scrabble like game, but each player has their own tiles and arranges and re-arranges their own words depending on what tiles they get until there aren't any left in the "bunch". It was fun, and the girls did a good job of not letting themselves get frustrated. Jada and I took turns helping out the girls, but they did quite a bit on their own too.
Monday morning, early Monday morning just before 1am, we awoke to Ellen calling for us from the bathroom where she had just vomited. She made it there before she did it. And then we all went back to bed, and she did it again about 45 minutes later. Followed by a third time, which turned out to be a false alarm. By 2:30am, she was asleep again, but I couldn't fall asleep. I kept listening for their bedroom door. In the morning, she had no temperature at all, but as a precaution, I still only gave her toast. Then I had to leave for work in a not too alert state, but a day to ride is a day to ride. The roads weren't slick on our street, but by the time I made it down towards TV Highway, they were quite frosty and slick on the rest of the way to work. I'm not sure where all the moisture came from, but every intersection looked like an ice rink. I didn't see cars having too much trouble, but I definitely took it slow and steady. During the day, the girls and Jada visited Gramma. Today the facility had a band with a banjo and other instruments. Ellen said it was cool. They then got to visit their friend Laurie and the new baby. Her nieces were also in town from China, and they're right around Ellen and Phoebe's age so they had fun together. Jada got to get her baby fix too, which is good. When I got home from work, Jada had just heard from the Humane Society saying they had some openings, so we could meet with them now about Flower. Of course. But, as I said, I'm still happy with our decision.
Early Tuesday morning, it was Phoebe's turn to wake me up in the middle of the night. Luckily, this time was only a nightmare. She keeps having these bad dreams that she's being chased by wolves. I'm not sure where she gets it, but I'm guessing at some point during her time at pre-school, she watched Beauty and the Beast. Later that morning, the girls got play dates. Phoebe went over to the sibling's house while the other came over to play with Ellen. Around 2pm, it started to snow. I hadn't heard that in any forecasts. I had meetings down in our cafeteria so I was able to see outside. It just kept coming down all afternoon. I made a valiant effort to make it home. I made it out of the campus, and onto the road outside the campus, but the snow was too deep (4-5inches) over the top of a slick wet surface. Rather than end up on the ground in front of a car, I gave in, got up on the sidewalk, and trudged the mile and a half to the closest MAX station. I texted Jada to let her know where I was, but I waited over 30 minutes for a train to even come, and by then, I was freezing. Jada let me know she was on her way to pick me up. She made it there, and rather than deal with all the snarled traffic, we went over to New Seasons to have dinner since by now it was 6pm. By the time we left New Seasons at 7pm, the traffic had let up a bit, and we had an easy time going home (I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but we love our Subaru). There were lots of cars littering our hill, but we didn't have any troubles getting to our house. I put the bike away, and then I shoveled the driveway. In the morning, there were even more cars parked outside our house, but luckily none were blocking our driveway. I had my dentist appointment at 7am followed by Jada's at 8am. I took the van since I'm the more experienced driver in wacky conditions. No problems getting there, but I did spin quite a bit getting up our hill. I still made it through. We all got our H1N1 vaccinations. Ellen was brave, but Phoebe struggled. She wasn't happy to hear she had to come back for a second shot in a month. Then I headed into work for the rest of the day. The girls went to visit Gram and work on the 500 piece puzzle they are completing thanks to one of the people who live there.
New Year's Eve day was rainy. This was a more typical Oregon winter day. I worked until about 2pm when I headed home to start making dinner. The pizza dough turned out really well. Jada and the girls were over visiting Gramma for their New Year's celebration. They did their countdown to 2pm. Our friends came over at 5pm. I had each of the kids make their own pizzas again, but I made them slightly smaller this year, and they ate the whole thing. I guess they are all getting older, and we think Phoebe is going through a growth spurt since she is hungry all the time recently. We followed dinner with some games - Apples to Apples, BuzzWord Jr., and BaffleGab. It was lots of fun. After we got the girls to bed, I made my traditional 10pm (PST) call to Nana and Bapa in Illinois to usher in the New Year so Jada and I could go to bed. But first I wanted to finish this journal up.
So, let me leave 2009 with this thought. During our summer trip to San Diego, I came up with this rough timeline of Rick Springfield's love life based on my favorite songs of his. This is how I amuse myself, it's my burden to bear (well, I guess Jada has to put up with it too). With that said, I present you my dissertation on Rick Springfield's romance.
We start with a young, impetuous Rick wishing that he could have "Jessie's Girl". He is able to win her as he finds that "Love is Alright Tonight," and then he "Gets Excited". Though he soon starts to get jealous since perhaps he realizes that his girl may leave him the same way she left Jessie, and so he tells her, "don't talk to strangers". It doesn't seem to work. To make it seem like he's the one in the driver's seat, he stages a big fight where he claims, "I've done everything for you, but you've done nothing for me". Whether or not this is true, we can't tell. However, it must have hit a nerve with his gal because he quickly, desperately pleads with her, "don't walk away". Alas, it wasn't to be as he recounts that "one night" when he realized perhaps this love was not meant to be. As he works through his pain to reconcile his loss, he decides that it must have just been an "affair of the heart". At this point, he seems to grow a bit as he looks towards the future. He feels a bit of hope as he "celebrates youth", but eventually he gets back around to looking for a "human touch". Finally, he has grown to understand himself and what he really wants as he decides that it must just be a "state of the heart".
So that brings us to the end of the decade. I'm going to rehash the year. I'll leave that for you to go back through and enjoy the highlights through this beautifully hand-crafted and electronically bound journal collection.
I will give the final tally of 2009 cycling (yes, I do keep a spreadsheet of all the miles that we rode this year): Dave: 4036.55, Jada: 404.02, Ellen: 427.52, Phoebe: 404.02.
Thanks for reading, and we'll see you in the new year.
Journal Entry: December 31, 2009.