btw, y'all keep those ideas coming for what to serve on my Italian Xmas dinner thread:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=41527&site=3
Meanwhile, here's an update that made me happy. I just got off the phone with my younger brother. He's in the process of trying to get reinstated. (it's called groveling, and he agrees with that description)
I invited him over for my big Christmas dinner. Well actually everyone else did too. My older half-brother and his family, my "adopted" family, all of them have been dying to meet Matt. So I called him and asked him to come. Matt said he'd love to and will be here, even going to bring his guitar and amp. Hopefully he'll bring his keyboard too. It's some big fancy one, a Korg Triton (forget the model) with a touch screen and wow it's something else!
Mike.