Obama 44th President

I don't really know much about President's being sworn in or really anything about politics, or really anything that went on yesterday. Does that make me a bad person? It's not that I don't care just that it kind of bores me. If I am going to spend the time reading stuff about Presidents and their promises that probably won't be fulfilled I'd rather take that time and play a video game or read something that interest's me. I did hear on the radio this morning that there was some mess up's on him being sworn in. I will have to see that on Youtube. All I know is yesterday was the Obama's first day and gas went up in Canton 6 cent's. In my book not off to a great start. Either way we have a new President alot of people are excited so him being President must be a good thing. Now hopefully the economy recovers and I have a job next year. Go Steelers.

Cuse Game

Well I went to the Cuse Notre Dame yesterday and almost died. We were driving down weather was sunny here and cold but when we got around the Watertown area it got bad quick. It was snowing so hard you literally couldn't see the front of the vehicle. So we are cruising doing around 20-25 when out nowhere there was a huge wreck. It kind of reminded me of Days of Thunder when he is going through the smoke, except I'm the camera guy riding in the back going "oh shit, oh shit". My uncle was driving and somehow drove through it without hitting anything. No idea how I think he found his calling. As we drove through there was at least 10 vehicles anywhere from car's to tractor trailers piled up, and the way we came up on the accident I guarantee there was more involved. As we make it through we hear on the radio that the part we just drove through was closed on 81. After doing 5mph for 45 miles and seeing my life flash before my eyes we made it through the storm. We stopped took a leak and made it to our seat's at the dome right for the national anthem. Not bad timing. Here is a couple pictures i took from the game. What a great game it was. Here is the article:

"SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim gave Arinze Onuaku and Rick Jackson a simple task -- make Notre Dame star Luke Harangody work hard for his points.


The Orange's big men did that and more.

Onuaku matched his season high with 19 points, Jackson had 14 points and 10 rebounds, and the eighth-ranked Orange held off Notre Dame 93-74 on Saturday.


Fast Facts

• Six Syracuse players scored in double figures and four scored 15 or more as the Orange snapped a three-game losing streak against Notre Dame.

• Notre Dame has lost nine of its last 10 road games vs. ranked opponents.

• Luke Harangody led Notre Dame with 25 points and 16 rebounds, his sixth straight game with 25+ points and seventh straight with 20+ points and 10+ rebounds.

-- ESPN research

Harangody had 25 points and 16 rebounds, his 10th straight 20-point game and seventh consecutive double-double. But he found it tough going inside, shooting 9-for-28 against an inspired Orange man-to-man defense.

"Coach told us to stay down and make him take tough shots," said Onuaku, who combined with Jackson for seven blocks. "He's such a great player that you have to make him work hard and think about it. You just try to put a hand in his face to discourage the shot."

The Orange (17-2, 5-1 Big East), coming off a loss at Georgetown that stopped a seven-game winning streak, snapped a three-game losing streak against the Irish (No. 13 ESPN/USA Today, No. 12 AP).

Paul Harris had 15 points and 10 rebounds for Syracuse, while Jonny Flynn finished with 17 points and nine assists, Eric Devendorf had 16 points and Andy Rautins 10 points.

Kyle McAlarney finished with seven 3-pointers and 24 points and Ryan Ayers had 11 points for the Irish (12-5, 3-3).

Harangody took the blame for the Irish's second straight defeat. They also lost in overtime at No. 20 Louisville on Monday night. Harangody went scoreless over the final 11 minutes against the Cardinals and had only one field goal after McAlarney's 3 moved the Irish within 74-69 of Syracuse with 6:01 left.

"This one's on me," Harangody said. "I've reached the time in my career where I need to step up and 9-for-28 from the field is unacceptable. I can't lay a goose egg like that, especially on the road."

Harangody, staring at either Onuaku, Jackson, or Harris every time he turned around, moved away from the basket in the second half and wasn't as effective, managing 11 points and five rebounds.

The Orange outscored Notre Dame 54-24 in the paint, had 39 fast break points, and limited the Irish to 35.5 percent shooting.

"We forced them into tough shots," said Rautins, who had three steals and showed no effects of spraining his knee against Georgetown. "It was important to get off to a good start. This was a huge game. It shows what we can do."

Syracuse jumped to a 13-point lead in the opening 10 minutes behind outbursts by Flynn, Onuaku and Rautins. Flynn hit his third 3 in a 3-minute span to give Syracuse a 15-12 lead at 14:21 send the Carrier Dome crowd of 30,021 into a frenzy.

The Orange never trailed again, but every time they seemed set to take command, the Irish came back.

After Harris hit only his third 3-pointer of the season and then followed Onuaku's fast break miss, Syracuse had a 61-45 lead with 12:21 left. McAlarney, who had nine 3-pointers last season to key an Irish win over the Orange at the Joyce Center, hit two from beyond the arc and just like that Notre Dame was back within eight.

Jackson then dunked over Harangody and finished an eight-point spurt with a hook over the Irish star to give Syracuse a 16-point lead midway through the period.

The Irish responded with a 16-5 run that ended with McAlarney's 3 that made it 74-69.

But even though Devendorf missed three straight shots, the Irish failed to take advantage. Harris had a tremendous block on Harangody, who then committed one of two straight Irish turnovers and missed a 3 from the right corner.

"We were trying to get back in the game," McAlarney said. "You fight so hard to get back in that position, and when you get to that point, it's hard to switch gears a little bit. We did a good job of trying to, but they just kept running on us, kept pushing on us and made some big shots down the stretch."

Flynn started the final flurry by scoring on an inbounds pass with 4:04 left. Devendorf then hit from the top of the key and Flynn scored on a fast break layup off a feed from Devendorf to boost the lead to 82-72 with 3:03 to go.

Syracuse, which missed its first seven free throws -- five in the first half by Onuaku -- made eight straight over the final 1:19."

Joba-The-Not

BELMAR, N.J. - If New York Yankees star Joba Chamberlain really WAS at the Jersey shore, wouldn't he ask for something better than a bagel?

That question apparently was never asked when a Toms River man with a strong resemblance to the Yankee pitcher allegedly implied that he was Chamberlain.

Thirty-year-old Ryan Ward is charged with theft by deception and disorderly conduct, and could get more than a year in jail if convicted.

He's charged with scamming a Belmar bagel shop out of free food last summer after allegedly telling an employee, "Do you know who I am?" and pointing to a photo of Chamberlain in a newspaper sports section.

Police say he signed autographs and promised women free Yankee tickets.

Ward has denied the charges, telling the Asbury Park Press, "You can't have fun anymore, can you?"

The newspaper dubbed him "Joba-The-Not."

His municipal court trial is scheduled for Feb. 11.

Police in Monmouth County say Ward represented himself as Chamberlain in other businesses in Belmar and Spring Lake, and was banned from a few local bars because of it.

Ward declined to answer specific questions about his actions, telling the newspaper, "It was something I did for the summer. I had a lot of fun with it."

His attorney, Constantine Bardis, called the charges against Ward a "tragedy."

"What's the crime in pretending to be someone?" Bardis asked. "I'm Mel Gibson; want to have a drink? He just goofed around because he kind of looks like the guy."

Ward then corrected his lawyer.

"He looks like me," Ward said.

Belmar Police Chief Jack Hill called Ward a "nut," saying Ward broke the law when he pretended to be a Yankees pitcher.

"He impersonated another person and took advantage of it," Hill said. "We frown on people taking other people's identity."

Crazy Texters

Just yesterday I posted a story about a girl texting a bunch and then today another story comes out with a girl out doing her. Here's the story.
"Brad Cox of Clermont was surfing the Internet this week when he saw a story about a California girl who had sent and received 14,528 text messages on her cell phone in one month.

"I laughed and thought, 'That's nothing,' " Cox said Tuesday.

Cox's 14-year-old daughter, Emilee, hit 35,000 messages a month twice in the past year. Thank goodness for unlimited plans.

Her peak month was June, when she tallied 35,463 messages, or about 1,182 a day. Assuming she slept eight hours a day, that's about 74 messages an hour, or roughly one coming or going each minute.

"Heyy," Emilee Cox wrote when asked by a Sentinel reporter about her texting through, you guessed it, a text message. "Uhm i'm not sure really. In june i had cheer camp so like alot of my friends had texted me. And when i wasn't at camp i'd text my friends and girls on my team. i don't like talking on the phone so i'd prefer texting people.

"Well it's different things with different people," she wrote. "Like with my cheer friends we talk about cheerleading. Then with friends from school and stuff we'd talk about how our summers were and what we expected high school to be like. And my boyfriend and i talk about random things. He's the main reason my texting is so high becuz we're constantly texting. Lol"

Just before Christmas, Emilee wore out her phone because she was texting so much. Her father switched her to a different provider and got her a phone without a keyboard.

That slowed her texting down a little -- she sent 14,083 in December.

As long as his daughter, a ninth-grader, keeps getting good grades at East Ridge High School, he'll let her keep on texting.

"I think there are much worse habits for her to have," said Cox, who clocked 656 text messages of his own in June. "It keeps her from being bored, and it keeps her out of trouble."

Kristin Wallace, a spokeswoman for Sprint, confirmed Emilee's text tally and said Sprint customers average 268 messages a month.

"It's absolutely amazing," Wallace said. "She must have been texting day and night."

A study by Nielsen found that kids ages 13 to 17 on average send and receive 1,742 messages monthly.

Cox might think his daughter has the fastest fingers around, but she's not even close. A man in India reportedly had 182,689 text messages in a month."

Crazy kids.

Introducing the next great American pastime: beer pong.

Introducing the next great American pastime: beer pong.
by Rick Reilly


There is only one place I know that combines tiny balls, plastic cups and vats of beer. Besides Jose Canseco's house, that is.

It's a beer pong tournament. This is a sport that requires a steady hand, faulty hearing and a titanium liver. It's believed that 73% of all tuition money goes toward it.

Beer pong is played on a table slightly smaller than Ping-Pong's, by teams of two. Ten cups, filled about one-third with beer, are set like bowling pins at the ends. As you try to toss or bounce a Ping-Pong ball into the cups on the side opposite yours, opponents jump and yell unspeakables about your mother. If you make it, they must drink it. First team to sink all 10 cups wins. It's very sophisticated.

"I HAD THAT MONEY SPENT."

But the beer pong I play is nothing like the kind in the World Series of Beer Pong, which I covered recently at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. That's where North America's 414 best pong teams competed for the $50,000 first prize. Second prize: bubkes. Gulp.

You have never seen such large people throw such tiny objects into such small receptacles with such hair-raising frequency. The best teams hit about 70% of their shots on the eight-foot tables. That's like pitching a quarter into a parking meter slot seven times out of 10.

More shocking was that it was more about pong than booze. Four of the 10 cups were filled with water, which worked out to one beer per player per hour. Regular pongers pour more than that on their Raisin Bran.

In fact, drinking was optional. One team used only water in the first round—Mrs. and Mrs. Lara and Kristin Mendez of New York City. That's right, two married women. Beer Pong: changing the world.


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Still, there were quality team names, such as: He Sucks … I'm Good; Beer Pong … Because Jesus Would; and Chase's Mom ATM. There was also Francois the Butt Dusters, made up of my sons, Jake (21) and Kel (23). The Dusters started off 4–0, including a W over a team from Rochester, whose members, no joke, would, out of nowhere, slap each other hard on the face. The slapee, red-cheeked, would look at his partner—stunned—and then yell, "Yeeeeahhh!!!" One guy from Jersey ripped his shirt off just before a crucial point. One team played sitting on each other's shoulders.

The real drama centered on Albany's the Iron Wizard Coalition. These guys made last year's finals and sank their final cup while their opponents, Chauffeuring the Fat Kid, still needed four. They went triple Gramatica, jumping and dancing and hugging. "I had that money spent," says Mike Hulse, 28, of the Wizards.

But they forgot about beer pong's diabolical redemption rule, which allows a last chance as long as you don't miss another cup. Fat Kid never did. Four straight sinks. Pong history. Kid wound up winning the game and the cash. "Do I think about it?" says Hulse, who doesn't make much working for a cable company. "I think about it every time I look at a bill. Every freakin' time."

Alas, the Wizards wound up 49th this year. The Butt Dusters finished a valiant 182nd. The finals came down to the tourney faves: Smashing Time (Ron Hamilton and Michael "Pops" Popielarski, both 25) vs. Getcha Popcorn Ready (Brian Nentwig and Joe Radesco, both 23). The 6'4", 280-pound Hamilton chugged a bottle of Jack Daniel's beforehand. "The key today," he said later, "was me getting real drunk." (Maybe it wasn't always more about pong than booze.)

Popcorn, winner of the loser's bracket, needed to win both games to be crowned King Pong. Smashing Time had to win only one. Popcorn won Game 1. The next would be for everything. And that's when I saw something I've never seen in sports.

The two teams had made a secret deal before the match: If Popcorn won Game 1 and the tourney continued, the winners would give the losers $3,000. Can you imagine? "Tell you what," Kobe says to KG before Game 7. "Winner buys the loser a Rolls. Deal?"



Bad move for Smashing Time, which then proceeded to sink little white balls just like in Tiger's dreams. They used only 12 shots to make their final 10 and win easily. Twelve balls, 10 cups. Try that at home.

It should be noted that the final was filled with honor. Nobody mentioned anybody's sister or flashed unwelcome appendages. That's good. All this bush league stuff will have to go if we're going to take beer pong to the next level: the Olympics.

Hope they don't test for whiskey.

You Think You Text Alot

Greg Hardesty didn't LOL when he got his teen daughter's cellphone statement.
All he could think was "OMG!"
The California man's 13-year-old daughter, Reina, racked up an astonishing 14,528 text messages in one month. The online AT&T statement ran 440 pages.
"First, I laughed. I thought, 'That's insane, that's impossible,' " the 45-year-old dad said. "And I immediately whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly possible."
He found it was - barely.
It works out to 484 text messages a day, or one every two minutes of every waking hour.
"Then I thought maybe AT&T made some mistake on the bill," said Hardesty, of Silverado Canyon.
The reporter for the Orange County Register grilled his daughter on her texting habit - by text message, of course.
"Who are you texting, anyway? Your entire school?" he asked.
"Well, a lot of my friends have unlimited texting. I just text them pretty much all the time," she explained.
She messages a core of "four obsessive texters" - all girls between the ages of 12 and 13 - on her LG phone.
Reina had a karaoke birthday party, and while other people were singing, she was texting her best friend sitting right next to her.
She even texted her friends to brag about the high number of text messages she had logged when her parents got the statement.
Her texting soared last month because "it was winter break and I was bored," Reina told her parents.
Luckily, Hardesty has a phone plan that allows unlimited texting for $30 a month. Otherwise, he estimates, he would have owed AT&T $2,905.60 at a rate of 20 cents per message.
The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old teen is 1,742, according to a Nielsen study of cellphone usage.
Hardesty admits he himself punches in 900 messages a month - 700 more than average for his age group, according to Nielsen.
Hardesty and his ex-wife have since placed restrictions on Reina's cellphone use, ruling she cannot text after dinner.
I don't even know what to say. If i was a doctor id be calling because arthritis is soon to follow.

Brrrrrrrr

It was -11 for most of today and that was without the wind chill. Thankfully it wasn't a really windy day but damn it was cold. I came across an article that made it feel a little warmer here. "The big deal today into Thursday morning will be wind chill.
If you know what 58 below feels like, then the wind chill in the Devils Lake Basin by late tonight or in the dark, early hours of Thursday morning will feel too familiar.
Actual temperatures will reach 35 below, maybe 40 below in isolated pockets up north near the Canadian border, said Brad Hopkins, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Forks.
Exhaust from passing cars rises as a pedestrian prepares to cross a Minneapolis street today during another day of sub-zero temperatures. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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Across much of northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota, wind chills will get down to 52 to 58 below late tonight and early Thursday, according to the National Weather Service office in Grand Forks, which issued a wind chill warning for the region from midnight Tuesday to noon today. Most of today, it will feel like 40 to 46 below across the region."

At least it's not going to be 52-58 below here.

It's Cold It's Windy...

Still the bank robber is out there. There is a $10,000 reward so if you are the bank robber and reading this please turn yourself into me first because I could use the money. If we get snowed in I will write a better post. Until then deal with this crap and go to mattmclear.com and take some trivia tests I made.

Canton Banked Robbed Again

It's a good thing I live on the safe side of town because last night a bank was robbed for the 3rd time in Canton. Here is the story from WWNYTV.Net.

Police set up roadblocks around Canton Friday night, trying to catch the person who robbed the SeaComm Federal Credit Union.
7 News reporter John Friot, at the scene, said a person carrying a duffel bag entered the building shortly before 6 pm.
Authorities said the person was believed to be a white man. He was wearing a ski mask.
It’s not clear whether he was armed, but Friot reports authorities believe he got money from the credit union.
Police said they were following tracks in the snow.
The credit union is on East Main Street, on the eastern side of Canton.
Friot said he saw police checking every vehicle leaving Canton on Route 11.
There were all roadblocks near Potsdam and in Gouverneur.
Canton village police were leading the case, with assistance from the sheriff’s department, state police and Potsdam police.
Scott Wilson, the chief operating officer of SeaComm, was on scene. Police could be seen reviewing a videotape of the suspect in the building.
The SeaComm credit union was also robbed in December 2006, where robbers reportedly got $270,000.
In July 2006, the MBT Bank in Canton was robbed of $10,000.

If you go to http://www.wwnytv.net/index.php/2009/01/09/friday-night-credit-union-in-canton-robbed/ you can watch the 11 o clock news story.

If Only I Was That Lucky

Woman finds 139-year-old baseball card in box of antiques
By 'Duk

The strange story goes like this: Last summer, Bernice Gallego pulled an old baseball card from a box of antiques. She figured it might be worth something to someone, so she listed it on eBay.
The starting bid was $10.
But after getting a flurry of inquiries about whether the card was authentic or not, Gallego started to suspect she was holding something a little more valuable and immediately ended the auction.
Turns out her hunch was correct. She did have something more valuable. The card she found was made in 1869 and featured the "Red Stocking B.B. Club of Cincinnati," the sport's first professional team. It's considered one of the first baseball cards ever produced and its actual value could be worth more than $100,000 when she puts it back on eBay (with a higher starting price, of course).
Of course, the news that she had found a rare piece of early baseball history came as a shock to the 72-year-old Fresno, Calif., resident who said she's never been to a baseball game. Her tale, from unwitting discovery to learning about the card's history, is wonderfully captured by our old pal Mike Osegueda of the Fresno Bee. Click here to read it.
From the Fresno Bee:
"When I came to meet her and she took it out of a sandwich Baggie and she was smoking a cigarette, I almost fainted," (collector Rick) Mirigian says.
"They've uncovered a piece of history that few people will ever be able to imagine or comprehend. And it comes out of Fresno," he says. "That card is history. It's like unearthing a Mona Lisa or a Picasso."
Gallego said she doesn't know exactly where the box of antiques came from since she and her husband are collectors and frequently buy lots from different estates around California. She does have a history of being lucky, though, having once won $250,000 on a slot machine.

If Your Son Is Missing How Long Would You Wait To Report It?

A day, two days, a week? 10 years!?! Listen to this story.

Authorities in Kansas are looking for a boy who disappeared about a decade ago, but was not reported missing until a few weeks ago.

Adam Herrman has not been seen since 1999, when he was 11 or 12.

"We don't know what happened to Adam Herrman past '99, when he was last seen," Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference in El Dorado.
"Is he alive, is he dead? That one I can't answer because we don't know," he added.
Adam was 11 or 12 when he was last seen, Murphy said. At the time, he was living in a mobile home park in Towanda, a small town in southern Kansas, with his adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman. The couple did not report him missing, Murphy said.
A few weeks ago, a person notified Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Children's Unit of a "concern" regarding Adam, Murphy said.
The agency did not immediately return CNN's phone call seeking additional information.
Wichita attorney Warner Eisenbise, who is representing Adam's adoptive parents, said the couple "really rue the fact that they didn't" report the boy missing.
"They feel very guilty" about not doing that, he said in a telephone interview. The couple told him the boy had run away frequently, he said, and they believed him to be either with his biological parents or homeless.
Although the Herrmans did not report him missing, "they were very worried about him," he said.
Authorities have searched the Pine Ridge Mobile Home Park, where the family had lived, and discovered an "answer" to one of their questions, Murphy said, without explaining.
"We did find one of the answers we were looking for, but I am holding that one very tightly," he said.
Eisenbise said authorities also executed a search warrant on December 15 at the Herrmans' home in Derby, a town just outside of Wichita. They took the couple's computer, he said.
Murphy said the couple is cooperating and had not been charged with anything.
Citing a relative, the Wichita Eagle reported the Herrmans had taken Adam into foster care and later adopted him.
Michelle Ponce of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, which oversees adoption and foster care, said she could not release any details regard Adam's case, and could confirm only that he had been in foster care at some point, but was no longer in foster care in 1999.
Adam had been placed in the Herrmans' care when he was about 2, Murphy said in a phone interview. He had been named Irvin Groeninger III when he was born on June 8, 1987, Murphy said, and it was not clear when his name was changed.
His biological parents relinquished their rights as parents about two decades ago, and Adam and his siblings were put in different foster homes, CNN affiliate KWCH reported.
"I thought what I was doing for them was in the best interest of the children and evidently it wasn't," Irvin Groeninger told KWCH. "If he was still in my custody this would have never happened."
Adam's sister, Tiffany Broadfoot, 22, said she last saw her brother about 14 years ago at a birthday party.
A year or two later, he sent her a Christmas card, she said. "And that was the end of my contact with him," she told KWCH.
"He had the cutest little round face, little bitty freckles right up here on the tip of his cheek," she remembered.
"I'm just awestruck as how something like that could actually happen, and how he could be missing as long as he's been and nobody say anything," she said.
Murphy said Adam's name appears on a legal document later than 1999. "We know that he was listed in a legal action as if he was still living at home, and I'm not certain of the date, but it was beyond 1999," he told CNN

What is Wrong With This World???

I was browsing the web and came across a couple of stories that made me go what the hell? So I have to share them with you.

1)Boy, 4, shoots babysitter for stepping on his foot

Mon Jan 5, 9:08 pm ET
JACKSON, Ohio – Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter. Nathan Beavers, 18, was hospitalized Sunday with minor wounds to his arm and side after the shotgun attack. Police say another teen was also injured.
Witnesses told police the child was angry because Beavers accidentally stepped on his foot. Beavers was watching the child at a mobile home in Jackson with several other teenagers and several other children.
Jackson County Sheriff John Shashteen says authorities are investigating. The child has not been charged.



2)Topless coffee shop proposed for small Maine town

Mon Jan 5, 3:52 pm ET
VASSALBORO, Maine – A one-time motel in a small central Maine town could soon be offering an eye-opening way to start the day — topless coffee shop waitresses. The Vassalboro Planning Board on Tuesday will consider a business permit request for a topless coffee shop on busy Route 3.
The one-story building has also been the home to several other business ventures, most recently Mac Daddy's Pub at the Fat Cat Grille, which closed three or four years ago.
Neighbors have mixed opinions. Some say Vassalboro is a rural town and that a topless coffee shop would bring the wrong crowd. But others say they'd like to see a business make a go of it there.
Donald Crabtree of Ellsworth, who has applied for the business permit, told the Kennebec Journal that he didn't want to discuss his plan until after the planning board meets.


3)Police: Mexican woman in wheelchair flees on foot

Mon Jan 5, 9:03 pm ET
MONTERREY, Mexico – Police say a woman who begged from a wheelchair was caught running from a crime scene on foot in Monterrey, Mexico. Police spokeswoman Sidlayin Robles says 30-year-old Ana Victoria Perez fled on foot after she and her husband allegedly threw a stone through the front window of a furniture store.
Perez was a regular fixture along a main Monterrey road, asking for change from motorists as she sat in a wheelchair pushed by her husband.
Robles said Monday that the couple apparently planned to rob the furniture store but were scared off by a security guard. They have been charged with vandalism.
Police arrested the couple when they returned for the wheelchair.

Happy New Year!!

Hope you had fun watching the ball drop, or watching some crazy guy on a dirt bike, or whatever else you did. I did not see the ball drop or if I did i don't remember. Either way HAPPY NEW YEAR's.