Merry Christmas

Hope the day finds you warm, happy & fed.

We're enjoying the usual traditions today - watching the cats pull their new toys out of their stockings, smelling the turkey cook WAY too slowly, playing with our gifts and listening to an hour of frightening holiday music on WWOZ-New Orleans. "I got a used tube of toothpaste for Christmas, kind of squished, but what's the difference?" to the tune of Deck The Halls. And the perenial favorite, "Christmas in Chalmette"...and "Drive-thru Daquirie Shop".

I'm enjoying my red & green toe socks with jingle bells, and Jane's wearing her new slippers with stuffed felt cats on the top.

Did I mention the turkey smells way too good to wait another hour?

Happy day to all. We're warm, happy & about to be fed.

The Cannon litany

Overheard at GM service department waiting room:

I wanted both hip replacements at the same time but my doctor said it would be too debilitating. I guess he went to school, he should know...

When I had my operation, II had to go to a nursing home because no one could take care of me at home.

I had a knee replacement, but it felt better immediately.....

My daughter is a policeman in Las Vegas. she's figuring out it's probably not for her. You'd think she'd figure that out in school.

In other news, archeologists find Jesus' village. Could it be his home? Just think, these are the buildings Jesus passed in the street when he was a boy. and the stone dishes were obviously Jewish. They could have been used by Jesus.

I don't know about this global warming. I mean what caused the glaciers? Bows & arrow aimed at the sky?

(on cell phone) Hi, baby. I'm getting my wife's Cadillac serviced, then going home. I'll see you later.

a good three hours were had by all.

Waiting for Santa

It's our Gracie's first Christmas - 7 months isn't too soon to make memories, is it? She's having a great time getting stuck in gift bags, getting lost in the tree, chasing bows & chewing ribbon. I can't wait for her to find her little purple stocking on Christmas morning & see how long it takes her to either get her catnip toys out of the stocking, or her entire body into it. George would prefer Santa take her back to the North Pole with his reindeer, but isn't saying much about it. He doesn't want to play with coal.

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This was every movie ever made: cowboys & Indians, Jurasic Park, Dances With Wolves, John Wayne shoot-em-ups, over the top military invasions, Blue Lagoon with a bit of Pinoccio thrown in for good measure. Flawless heroes, irredeemable bad guys in a military-industrial ecological fable. No shade of grey, just right vs wrong for more than 2 irretrievable hours. Is it a movie? Is it a video game? Is it a creature feature? Is it Jason and the Argonaughts? Aaaarrrrrggggggh! Ok, in fairness, it WAS visually stunning, but the scenery & computer tricks didn't compensate for the heavy-handed morality tale.