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 Posted - Dec 14 2021 : 08:59:44
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I felt a little bad about not doing an Advent calendar last year, but a few things came together that renewed that spirit ... a little. As you can see, I haven't started with the first day of Advent, not even close... But, I did notice that Christmas Day would be the twelfth day if I started counting today. Ok fine, the twelve days of Christmas are supposed to be the day after, not before... Look, I went back to the spreadsheet where I kept my ideas for previous Advent calendars and found I had twelve things that hadn't yet made the cut. Think of this as a "cut for time" version.
Feel the Christmas spirit yet? Well, hey, we're in our second year of COVID and it's not letting go anytime soon apparently. It's enough to dampen the Christmas spirit of just about anybody - even a cherished memory that practically lived for this stuff.
I give you The Narrator That Ruined Christmas.
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Posted - Dec 15 2021 : 00:55:39
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Nice! Something actually worth reading. Thank my friend!
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Novus Ordo Seclorum
Knowledge is power... has been since time eternal. Arcane knowledge is thereby ultimate power and can
therefore lead to ultimate corruption. Wisdom (and the experience that comes with age) is a serum for corruption.
Perhaps that is why there are so many Old Men with Arcane knowledge and so few young ones...
Arcane OMO - Circa 2001
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Posted - Dec 15 2021 : 05:35:58
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Continuing with the COVID/Isolation theme ...
One thing that occurs when you're not around people is that your own eccentricities begin to emerge unchecked.
Here's a new entry (i.e., not from the cut for time list).
For myself, I haven't been into my office since April of 2020. I can't even imagine going back and if I did, my colleagues my very well wish I hadn't.
Not that I'm eccentric ...
(Anyone else remember him?)
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Posted - Dec 15 2021 : 13:10:23
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LoL Dude! I don't know where you come up with this stuff.
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Novus Ordo Seclorum
Knowledge is power... has been since time eternal. Arcane knowledge is thereby ultimate power and can
therefore lead to ultimate corruption. Wisdom (and the experience that comes with age) is a serum for corruption.
Perhaps that is why there are so many Old Men with Arcane knowledge and so few young ones...
Arcane OMO - Circa 2001
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Posted - Dec 16 2021 : 06:50:01
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Over the weekend, my wife went to the UPS store to drop off the gifts we needed to ship. Conveniently, there's a liquor store a few doors down and as my wife was paying for the shipping, I went over to the liquor store to pick up what we're going to need for hosting Christmas dinner.
In between the UPS store and the liquor is a little bike shop. Knowing that I'd been researching e-bikes, my wife suggested we go in to see what they have. We were surprised to find out that the store will be closing on Christmas Day and will only be a mobile bike repair and servicing business thereafter. As a result, everything in the store is 25% off.
And, they had some screaming good deals on bikes, which now made some bikes I hadn't even considered feel like they were within my price range. So, after looking at a few models and hearing about the features, we ended up buying one for each of us. Really nice bikes too...
Ok, so why I'm I telling you all this?
Think about when you were a kid. What was the ultimate Christmas Gift? Either a puppy or a bike. I remember being envious of my friends watching them ride their new bikes ... with the shiny new spokes in the days after Christmas... all proud and stuff ...
Made me so angry ...
Ok, just breathe...
Of course not every one has the same idea about the ultimate Christmas gift.
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Posted - Dec 17 2021 : 08:43:16
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You've got to figure all those milk and cookies have got to take a toll on Santa's digestive system.
Well, fortunately, there's a solution!
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Posted - Dec 18 2021 : 12:03:10
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My wife does virtually all of the Christmas work at our house. I pretty much only have to put up the tree and the outside decorations and get my gifts to her. Ok, I save them money to pay for it through the year.
She does all the rest and I don't know how she finds the energy.
So at Christmas time don't cheap out. Make sure you get your better half something special.
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Posted - Dec 19 2021 : 04:47:54
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Above, find a specimen of Callinectes sapidus. The scientific name is a combination of a Greek word for beautiful swimmer and a Latin one for savory. The common name is bue crab.
Here in Maryland we take our seafood, and crabs in particular, very seriously. You'll find many Marylanders, myself included, proudly confessing to being a crab snob. There's a problem, though. Blue crabs are generally dormant in the cooler months. When I lived in Annapolis, the traditional date for the fishing boats to switch over to crabs was April 1st. On November 1st, they'd switch to oysters. (We're pretty serious about oysters too, just not quite as much.)
So, Marylanders have a special Christmas wish, that unless you're willing to accept ones from Louisiana or the Philippines (transplanted via ship balast), your wish won't come true.
Side story:
There's a restaurant in Las Vegas called The Crab Corner, which bills itself as a Maryland inspired restaurant (full of Terps, Orioles and Ravens swag). My wife and I first discovered it a few years ago in January. We ordered some crab cakes. They were pretty good, though not quite up to a crab snob's standard, acceptable quiaity. We asked the guy where he got his crabs, fully expecting him to say that they'd come from the Chesapeake Bay. His response - Louisiana, since he couldn't get them from Maryland this time of year. He passed the test and we try to make a visit there whenever we visit Las Vegas.
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Posted - Dec 19 2021 : 08:05:28
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Hi guys, Merry Christmas,Happy Holidays and blah blah blah.
I remember when I was 5 years old I got this BIG plastic Tank. I swear it was 2 feet long (but I was small so...) I loved that thing!!!
Do we have any OMO Covid-19 cases to report here???
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Posted - Dec 20 2021 : 06:39:46
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My Dad caught it back in July and just recently was able to come back home. I figure if he hadn't been vaccinated, it would've killed him.
Then my daughter came down with it just before Thanksgiving, which canceled our participation in the family's get together.
... now, back to Christmas.
Sticking with the "you'd better treat Mom/your wife right" theme. Imagine what might happen if you jacked with her at Christmas time.
Let's find out.
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Posted - Dec 21 2021 : 10:31:30
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Bonus entry (I forgot that I meant to do this one today, since it's a Tuesday)
Jingle Bell Blues
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Posted - Dec 21 2021 : 15:41:20
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Awww... Gotta love ya some Billy F Gibbons especially Jingle Bell Blues.
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Novus Ordo Seclorum
Knowledge is power... has been since time eternal. Arcane knowledge is thereby ultimate power and can
therefore lead to ultimate corruption. Wisdom (and the experience that comes with age) is a serum for corruption.
Perhaps that is why there are so many Old Men with Arcane knowledge and so few young ones...
Arcane OMO - Circa 2001
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Posted - Dec 22 2021 : 04:43:57
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Back in 1981, ZE records asked each of their artists to come up with a Christmas song. Chris Butler, the primary songwriter for the group, The Waitresses grudgingly began to piece a song together from some unused riffs and wrote the lyrics in a cab on the way to the recording studio.
Butler wasn't a fan of Christmas because of how hectic things get and wrote the lyrics from the perspective of an overstressed single woman trying to avoid the chaos.
The result was Christmas Wrapping.
Sadly, singer, Patty Donahue, passed away in 1996 due to lung cancer.
Continuing with less uplifting items at Christmas time ...
Today is the 21st anniversary of Richard Reid's attempt to blow up a plane bound for Miami from Paris using a shoe bomb. If you'd like to wish him a Merry Christmas to thank him for having to take your shoes off before getting on an airplane, you could try dropping by his current residence, USP Florence ADMAX.
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Posted - Dec 22 2021 : 08:46:41
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well i was going to just say hi and the utube clip was funny , never have seen that, now that i know im going to stop and do some serious reading in here lol Merry Christmas ALL !!
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Posted - Dec 22 2021 : 09:01:32
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" the utube clip " boy it seems i had seem them so i have downloaded all and get back. yep got my tickle bone
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Posted - Dec 23 2021 : 04:46:28
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Humbug
noun
1. deceptive or false talk or behavior.
verb
1. deceive; trick.
When Scrooge declared "Bah! Humbug!" he was, basically, declaring Christmas a fraud. He used the term many times in A Christmas carol. The term appears in The Wizard of Oz as well. The scarecrow refered to the Wizard as a humbug, to which the wizard agrees.
"Humbugging" or raising the devil was a practice of creating a distraction in order to assist in picking people's pockets.
In these times of COVID, many of us may be feeling more like Scrooge and less like Bob Cratchit. Perhaps there's deeper reason?
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Posted - Dec 24 2021 : 03:43:09
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LMAO - Brother I don't know where you come up with this shit... I mean seriously.
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Novus Ordo Seclorum
Knowledge is power... has been since time eternal. Arcane knowledge is thereby ultimate power and can
therefore lead to ultimate corruption. Wisdom (and the experience that comes with age) is a serum for corruption.
Perhaps that is why there are so many Old Men with Arcane knowledge and so few young ones...
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Posted - Dec 24 2021 : 05:52:30
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This is kind of early for the Christmas Eve post, but we're going to my brother's house this evening and we're hosting Christmas dinner at our house tomorrow, so this will be a busy day.
James Chadwick was a Roman Catholic bishop born in Ireland to a wealthy family. During his life he served in a number of academic leadership roles at his alma mater, Ushaw College in County Durham, England. He is most famous, though, for his translation/paraphrasing of the French carol Les Agnes dans nos compagnes (the angels in our countryside).
We know it by the name from Chadwick's translation/paraphrasing Angels We Have Heard On High, sung here in English, German, Italian and Portuguese.
Merry Christmas, y'all!
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Posted - Dec 31 2021 : 18:54:30
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Merry Christmas to all you old farts - and Happy New Year too… Hopefully in 2022 things start to get better.
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Christmas 2021
