Happy Belated Veteran's Day!

Good Morning! I wanted to write yesterday, but just didn't get around to it... so a quick thank you to all the Veterans who have given us the freedom that we have today.
I had an AWESOME weekend... all starting with my beloved Scarlet Knights beating Louisville! I followed that up Friday night with the Def Leppard & Journey concert at 1st Mariner Arena. I had seen Journey before (2003, with Styx and REO Speedwagon), so I knew what I was going to get there, but I must say that I was impressed with Def Leppard, they ROCKED! One of my friend's said that it brought back memories of high school, and I replied that it wasn't too difficult to see why... just take all the people that would go to a Def Leppard concert back in the 80's and imagine them doing the same thing 20 years later :). Actually, I was kind of surprised that there were so many young people there. In any case it was a great show and if you get a chance to see them you have my recommendation - take that as you will.
Finally, yesterday was a light day, I went to mass, had a prayer vigil at an abortion clinic in a residential complex, and then just hung out and watched football most of the day until I needed to be in the parish for the 5 PM Mass (which is nice since it means I have a totally open day today to get class work done). Then went out to dinner at Thai One On with a couple Seminarians before going to see Borat. The movie was very funny, but also very crude at times, so consider yourself warned. I came back to the sem, and watched some more college football before hitting the sack... more upsets, so I am interested to see how far RU climbs in the polls, in any case I believe it will be the highest ranking ever for Rutgers. I am a little nervous about the Cincinnati game next week since I think they have a pretty good team and are playing at home after the Knights had an emotional win. So, I am sure the state of NJ will be waiting for a few more hours to see how the polls work themselves out.

Last weekend I also had a pretty good time as John and Beth came to visit me :)... It was only a short visit, went out to dinner, hung out (watched and sang along with hits of the 1970's on an infomercial) then the next day we went to the Inner Harbor and I gave a small tour of the seminary. It was just really nice to see some friends, even if it is only for a little while. The weather was absolutely beautiful, especially for a Saturday in November. Actually it has been quite warm here and I would really like it to cool down a little bit, I don't feel like we have really had Autumn yet. Anyway, I took some pictures from the tallest five sided building in the world, The world trade center in the Inner Harbor. Here is one of them looking out into the Chesepeake Bay

The one bad thing (well, there are a couple of bad things), but one of them about not writing as often as I would like is that I have so much to talk about... We also had our Halloween Party in the seminary on the 31st, so I got to have some real fun decorating. As you can see I went a little crazy with Black Light, but hey it is really cool. There are a lot more pictures that were taken by me, but some of the better ones were taken by another seminarian here, Chris Hess. Can you guess who made the pumpkin??? Anyway, it was a good time as you can see.

I am really looking forward to Turkey Day, which amazingly is coming up really soon! I actually am going to be quite busy leading up to it though as the Bishops are in town this week, so I have a breakfast and a Mass to serve on top of my normal duties here. We also have Candidacy for those Seminarians who are going to be receiving Diaconate later this year, on Thursday. Then I was asked to serve as MC at St. Bernard's for their Confirmation this Friday and Saturday before celebrating the 25th Anniversary Mass of the Diocese of Metuchen. Oh and I have a paper to complete too, so I hope to get a lot of that work done today. Anyway, I hope to see a lot of you who read this blog around Thanksgiving and if I do not, I hope and pray that you have a happy and healthy one with lots of napping and football. May God bless you always!

Almost forgot: your site of the day is actually just going to be a picture today (hey it's my blog, deal with it)... so here you go, your moment of zen: