Hi everyone! No, I haven’t forgotten about any of you these last three weeks. Just took some time off for the Christmas holidays, and boy was it necessary! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas (or a Happy Hanukkah), and a Happy New Year! I may have mentioned it before, but December is one busy month in the Currier household: two children’s birthdays and the Christmas holidays (in which said children are home full-time!). There’s lots of presents to buy, wrap, open, store, not to mention a whole heaping load of old toys to bring down to Value Village. I also made the huge mistake of booking a few medical and dental appointments during the last month, not to mention the fact that my work all scheduled a four-day training session for me, so yeah… December was tough. Luckily, January has been like taking a toboggan ride down a nice snowy hill. Considering we are getting our first real snowfall of the winter as I write this entry, the previous simile is about as close as any of us actually got to tobogganing.

In the meantime, I’ve taken advantage of the down time to read up on the early years of Canadian power trio Rush, and how to “nudge” someone into making a wise choice (two separate books). I’ve also had time to drink lots and lots of coffee, watch some hockey, play some Nintendo Switch with the lad, take some online classes on critical decision making, and do some research for my next book. I feel I’ve uncovered some very interesting stories (in my opinion… probably no one else’s). I’m hoping to have it all done within the next year and have a publisher secured next year, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this timeline is realistic.

This week, I ran across an interesting article about the Seals almost moving to San Diego. I hadn’t actually talked about that in my book, so I’m bringing it up now. The NHL could have actually rid itself of Charlie Finley, and saved themselves the $6.5 million they would eventually fork over to make Finley’s departure a reality a few months later, but alas, this was not to be, as you will find out. This article, is a “twofer”, so you also get a summary of the Seals-Black Hawks game from the day before. Morris Mott and Rick Kessell were the big stars of the night at a time when the Seals were desperately hoping to turn their season around. You can read both pieces right here.

Until next time, stay gold!