Bloody Tryptophan - I am still tired.

Honestly, it's not the turkey, it's probably because I am out of shape and I did a lot of "lumber jacking" this weekend. Hefting large amounts of wood aside, all in all it was a great weekend to get away with family and relax.

Now that we've got the Thanksgiving traditions out of the way, Black Friday is behind us and the pumpkin pie is but a fond memory, we can start focusing on the commercial consumer success that we call Christmas. Yeah, I know, I can be a little "bah hum buggy" at times but I won't go there, this is supposed to be a happy time right?

Fine! Here's something that we can all get behind. It's Santa and his fictitious journey to deliver presents to deserving little bundles of joy everywhere. And guess what? NORAD, the North American Defense Command, is tracking the, jolly, fat man's progress. On Christmas Eve, there will be live video feeds from the Santa Cams around the world with Google Maps and Google Earth plotting the course.

"The tradition of tracking Santa began as an accident in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. ad for children to call Santa misprinted the phone number. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in Chief's operations "hotline." The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff check radar for Santa making his way south from the North Pole.

This began the tradition of tracking Santa Claus, a tradition that has carried on by NORAD, when it was formed in 1958. This Christmas marks the 50th anniversary of NORAD tracking Santa Claus.

Last year the NORAD Tracks Santa Web site received 10.6 million unique visitors from 212 countries and territories." via

If you are not doing anything on Christmas Eve, make sure you log on and see when Santa in going to be in your neighborhood.