[mreid]

I lived in a monopoly house once. I was green with envy at my neighbor's hotel. He was red with embarrassment at the size of his abode.

I'll be here all week folks, happy new year!

The wife and I just bought land on a lake outside of NYC (we're told it's not upstate, but greater metropolitan area even though it's in the middle of wooded hills and far from everywhere). Anyway, we're building a home that I envisioned would be small, nice, and with big garage. The wife got ahold of it and now it's huge, but kept my nice garage. Negotiations continue...