Happy Chinese New Year!

Yep, it's the year of the pig. And in honor of this year, I'm recommending that everyone go out and purchase Pass the Pigs – an enormously enjoyable travel game that I recently introduced to Cathryn. I own the older version that I picked up from Longs Drugs a long time ago, but the link takes you to a fancier "new and improved" (I'm sure) version of the game (mine is better) sold on Amazon.com (an online retailer that sells lots of things).

I also would like to pass along some free advice when talking to someone about "Year of the Pig". Especially if you're talking to someone you care a great deal for. If you say the phrase too quickly and kind of under your breath, it sounds like, "You're the pig", which really isn't such a good thing to be misunderstood as saying. Not that I have any personal experience with making such a linguistic lapse, but it could happen. It just didn't happen to me. Really. It didn't. I'm speaking hypothetically.