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A word on holidays
Specifically Thanksgiving and Christmas. Since so many people - mainly retailers - insist on cranking up Christmas music and putting up trees and stuff, sometimes in October or earlier, let's just combine the two holidays into one and call it, say, Chranksgiving.
Or cancel both in favor of a month-long Festivus! -
A new category for country music
After watching as much of the CMAs as I could tolerate last night, I think it's a fair observation that country music has added a category I can only refer to as "Bubble Gum" country. BGC ( Read more... ) -
U T Football, duh?
Three football players arrested for armed assault and the university isn't sure what will happen regarding the thugs' athletic career? Well, there's yer problem right there. See, it's like this: "yer off the team and, if you're lucky, you'll get probation instead of prison and maybe then we'll let you continue as a student . . . maybe . . . but ( Read more... ) -
Buyer Beware
(word . . . word)
Tried to find a replacement power adapter for my sister's laptop. Found one at Amazon. Placed order with Amazon.
Now, I understand that Amazon is often a link from other resellers but I had no idea how many layers there could be.
When I couldn't find my order at Amazon I got a bit concerned and emailed them. They couldn't find ( Read more... ) -
Livejournal no pic
For some reason, Livejournal is not displaying the images embedded in my Costume post, even though they show up fine in preview. So, if you want to see the images of the wide face guy compared to TinFoilio you'll have to go to my backup blog here ( Read more... ) -
My First Costume
This is the first year I had a costume for Halloween. I made a tin foil robot after seeing many on the web. The mall was having their annual trick or treat for a few hours in the evening where kids could walk in safety and get treats from local merchants. People were encouraged to put on a costume and come give the mall some seasonal atmosphere. I ( Read more... ) -
Pancakes
I miss 'em. Kind my mother used to make. I don't know how she did it. I have all of her recipes but there is no recipe for pancakes. Guess it's one of those things you just know how to make ( Read more... ) -
You'll be missed
Ruth. I'll think about you every time I hear "The Flower of Scotland."