I am on vacation.

I got everything done at work that needed doing. Nothing is hanging over my head for when I get back. I am free to enjoy myself for the next 9 days, and that's exactly what I'll be doing.

And right now, I'm gonna fart around on the computer and loll around in bed until I'm good and ready to go to sleep.

Happy Christmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/whatever December holiday you observe! Merry merry merry!

Everything everyone got for Christmas made me happy this year.

I loved that the Blue got the kids the Nintendo DSes they've been pining for.

I loved that K got Gryph the 12-inch Bowie knife he's been lusting after.

I loved Seo's squee of joy when she saw the cake turntable a bunch of us went in on.

I loved watching K try on the new dresses Kt made for her.

I loved unwrapping "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Manchurian Candidate" ... and "Innerspace."

I've enjoyed reading the book I got for K. :)

Even though my gifts to Kt were largely not surprises, I enjoy seeing her with them.

And I love my magnet that says, "Life is good." It is.

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• 19:58 December 24th, 9 PM. Eastern standard time. From here on in I shoot without a script. Happy holidays. Now, go to bed, kids. #rent #quotes #
• 21:56 Aiden is now scared of Doctor Who. Hiding behind the couch, literally! Awwww #
• 22:35 Ugly, svelte, elf-like guy in a reduculously cliche costume; just tried to break in to yhe house via the chimney. ADT will get complaints... #
• 22:37 Managed to beat the crap out of the guy before he escaped up the chimney. He dropped stuff. Aiden'll clean it up. twitpic.com/v35fu #
• 23:32 The family was nestled all snug in their beds; while visions of "Doctor Who: The End Of Time" danced in their heads. Okay. Maybe just mine. #
• 23:40 My (now ex-)PM (also laid off) said ~1.5 wks ago, "So Apple is done? Stock's flatlined. Nothin' else 4 'em." (#^%*) is.gd/5ANCr #
• 23:54 Santa @ San Isidro, Costa Rica #
• 23:55 Nearly midnight. So off to sleep go I as well. Happy holidays. My holiday wish. A killer i'view on the 5th and an offer by that Friday. #

P.S. Anyone notice the posting time? It's relevant.

This is the original story that the cartoon "Annabelle's Wish" was based on..

first read it as a kid and still gets me teary eyed today...this year marks the 33rd Anniversary of its first publication...


( Clarabelle the Christmas Cow )

a fav editorial of mine...This year marks the 60th year in a row The Wall Street Journal has run it in their Xmas edition..


( In Hoc Anno Domini )

So, who do I have to fuck to get a hotel room at the Sheraton?

Poll #1503103 Annual Yul Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

If Yul Brynner had had a Yule Log, would it then be both a Yul Log and a Yule Log?

Poll #1503101 Annual Holiday Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

WHY WERENT YOU AT ELF PRACTICE?!?!?!!

Peace on Earth
And Goodwill toward all!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

So not safe for work... or the kiddies... or people of faith... or with good taste.

That said, it's pretty funny.

Thanks a lot, Vault of Buncheness!

Happy Holidays, y'all!

www.deusexmalcontent.com/2009/12/real-reason-for-season.html

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• 08:34 Good morning interwebz. I think after the past 6 days. I'm going to take a slow day. Yeah, I think that's what I'm gonna do. kayluvya *wave* #
• 10:30 Ooh, nifty. My old student loans just refinanced themselves. Now instead of $350/month I will owe $50/month. Hmn.Pay for 1 more year or 4? #
• 17:13 Thanks to a dead iPhone, I am in a Mall on December 23rd. WHY!!!! Why couldn't it have failed next week. Um, Thanks for waiting til after SF #
• 18:35 ZOMG! @livingartist got into a mall and found parking in 5 min. She got out of the mall in < 30 sec. She is a God #
• 19:19 At home with replacement iPhone. Restoring from Monday's sync. Nothing really lost except some pictures from SF. :( 185 apps reordered >:-O #

P.S. Anyone notice the posting time? It's relevant.

Rudolph the Redneck Reindeer


Rudolph the Redneck Reindeer
smoked lucky stripes and dipped snuff
and when it come to liquor
he couldn't ever get enough

He carried a sawed-off shotgun
and always slicked back his fur.
All of the other reindeers
all the time called him sir.

Well he lived in a double wide trailer
about a mile from Santy's house.
and each and every Christmas
Rudolph would always get saused.

Then walk down to the stable
where the other reindeers would be.
where he'd cuss and spit tobacco juice
and punch out two or three.


Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santy came down to Rudolph's trailer where Rudolph was lyin' in the bed tryin to get over last night's drunk. Then Santy Claus saw Rudolph's bed covered with liquor bottles, tobacco juice all over em, and cigarette butts all over the floor there. And he got real mad. And he said to Rudolph "You'd better get on the dadgum wagon and pull my sled tonight boy!". Now Rudolph didn't like this kind of loud talks early in the mornin ya know. So he reached over there and spit tobacco juice in the left eye of Santy Claus. Then took a liquor bottle and busted it over the bed and said "Get the hell outta here ya dadgum fat hippie!". Well, see Santy Claus didn't like that at all. I mean Rudolph commin at em with a bottle and all, ya know. Well see Santy Claus has been takin Kung Fu lessons from this Chinese elf all summer long while he didn't have nothin to do. So he takes his right hand there and slams it into Rudolph's ol face there. Just knocks him flat on the floor.


Well, Rudolph the redneck reindeer
had a very bloody nose.
And if you ever saw it
you would even say it glows.

All of the other reindeers
now laugh and throw back their heads
cause Rudolph the Redneck Reindeer
that's how your nose got red

You know I would have voted for John McCain in last year’s election if I had been able to figure out how Vermonters register to vote in a quick enough time to do so. But after President Obama’s first year in office draws rapidly to a close, I can’t help but root for the guy.

Listen, it’s not because I agree with him on a lot of issues, but there are areas of agreement, and what I do like about him is his eloquence and his reach. Look, some people when given the position of power do nothing but make sure they hold on to that power. They not only do nothing that could be considered risky, they don’t even say anything. They won’t change their minds because changing their minds would infuriate their base.

But Obama’s speech to the Nobel Committee was, quite frankly, a masterpiece and an example of the foreign policy approach I agree with. It was also hugely unpopular with a set of the President’s supporters, for which he is still taking flak. I believe he did it because Obama walked into the office and found out what he wanted to do was not as possible as thought it was; that he cared about the country, and because he cared, he had to change what he wanted to do in the first place. He could have went to the Committee shrugged, and said he was only cleaning up the mess from the last guy, but he made a principled speech on why he needed to continue to be at war, while accepting a peace prize.

This post is rambling, and not as coherent as I want it to be. I guess I wanted to say I like the President because he’s principled, and he has a vision, and he is not afraid to anger anyone if he feels it needs to be done. I don’t want to see everything in Obama’s playbook pass, but I like the feeling that the person in charge is not incompetent.