Just heard a Brooks & Dunn song that made me literally ache for the old days in San Antonio when I had such a wonderful group of both college and work friends that would regularly meet for happy hours on St. Mary's Street.   It's incredibly sad that I've never had a group of friends like that since moving to Atlanta.  Even when I had a slightly bigger group of friends, they were all married with kids (and therefore unable to ever do spontaneous happy hours), and they all lived and worked too far apart.

I really need to try and create some sort of group to do that with again.  It was wonderful.

Vacation was about the same this year, though I left still being able to speak to most of the family, so I suppose that's an improvement.