Happy Holidays To All

I sure hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas. It won't be long now until the decorations are down and packed up for another year. Here's wishing a Happy and Healthy New Year to everyone.

-K-

YES, VIRGINIA

THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

EVERYBODY!

I hope each of you got what your heart desired.

A Belated Happy Birthday

To Den

I know it was on the 20th but I am really having trouble remembering to check my calendar.

Hope you had a great one!

Mele Kalikimaka

Christmas Eve Eve

I was just thinking about the Christmas Borg gave Lilomehere and me those neat gifts. A hat, and Spam earrings... lovely gifts. I hope your Borg, or Santa, or whomever, brings you all a lovely gift! Have a blessed and Merry Christmas, everyone!

B.

Iam Legend

Well they take one of my fav old sci fi movies-
The Omega Man, which starred Charlton Heston,
and do a remake. I haven't seen it and prob. won't.

The old one he is ? somewhat sad, alone, the point is he has the whole world but without companionship. Well sort of the point.

Anyhow the remake seems to be Hollywood Self Glory of a man.

THE BEST CHISTMAS TV AD

I'VE SEEN THIS YEAR

Okay, a blatant cross-post, but I like this commercial. The black tree. The black Dobie, The black wrapped gifts. Santa decked out in black leather/fur and throwing the poor dog a bone.

And checking off the name on the "naughty" list was priceless.

Not everyone's "cup'o'tea" but it appealed to me.

Click the YouTube "bug" on the lower right screen and then click the expand screen button at the home page. It really does look better on the full screen.

Have a great day, everybody. A week from today is Christmas. GROAN!

Woodstock and the Cherry Hill Mall

I was something like 12 years old - and looked up to my big brother a bit. I liked allot of the music he would listen to - we listened to a tape recorded album most every night before bed - and after the 45 minute side lulled me to an early sleep state the tape would end and you would hear a LOUD "CLICK" as the auto-stop would kill the player and wake you up a bit.

Anyway, we went to a midnight showing of "Woodstock" at the Cherry Hill Mall. I was fascinated, and eventually a friend hooked me up with a copy of the original Woodstock on tape - and I LISTENED ad nauseum for a very long time. I was a bit of a flower child for awhile.

Anywho, I came into a copy of the Woodstock double cd today for $6 at the used book store (also sells DVDs and Games). Very cool.

Actually, this was a Midnight Movie kind of day - I also was indoctrinated in the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the same venue - and I also got my daughter the soundtrack to that on the same purchase.

It's amazing how much of our memory has music involved in it somewhere.

A Decade!?

A comment Wil made to me at his blog got me thinking. He mentioned something about my knowing about the rough times he had in the past decade. Wow- a decade- Ten years ago this past August I bought my Webtv unit. It was mostly to stay in touch with my folks, who had just moved to Florida. I got addicted to surfing, and somehow after a month or so, I ended up at ADWH. And my life has never been the same. ;-)

Maybe it's the time of year, the holidays and all, but I have a special place in my heart for all the folks from ADWH, to alt.yatta.yatta.yatta, to Tim's forum, to Wil's blog, to here. It's amazing if you think about it, that in some way, shape, or form, we've been in touch with each other for 10 years! Some for the long haul, some for limited periods of time, some pop in and out every so often. You are all very special. And I do have to give a special thanks to the creator of Webtv, cuz with out it, I would not have met the love of my life.

Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year to all my friends.

(and a special one to my hubby!)

Bev

Line Stories

Lines-

I go to Wendy's near Home Depot for lunch today.
Older lady is kinda out there with back and forth with a kid (kids can take things into dementia dimension) with no they dont have happy meals and kid is kinda swinging around, anyhow...
There is a zig zag line that has a rope on poles and she and the kid have only slightly entered the first zig in the way to the counter.

I pass them without even thinking and order my burger and fries and when Iam waiting at counter after paying for the burger, the lady is at register and says to worker-
I would have been here sooner, but that man butted in front of me in line. Other lady with her, I guess a daughter says "Men are always in a hurry."

I think now if the lady were say in second segment of zig zag roped ailse or looking like her agenda was moving towards the counter I guess I wouldn't have passed her. She was sort of near the entrance to the walkway looking like she wasn't moving fast to going thru it.
Anyhow I didn't say anything. It was sort of like her comment was "real mature."

Line story Two-

I was at Shop Rite about a month ago. Big shopping day where you been through all the end of the aisles traffic jamns of the "you can go first" etc... and been there like hours getting the week's groceries and are spent tired and ready to get home.

Well Iam in the check out line and a lady with a full cart comes and says "Excuse me, excuse me sir" So I back up a little bit and she moves to in front of me in line and says thats my son in line , Iam with him. Then she laughs and says "I bet you weren't expecting that." (Which I mimicked in my head several times Yep I bet I wasn't), and thought to myself that its like the rule- if you are still shopping you shouldn't be in line. Anyhow I said nothing and got out of line and went shopping again for 5 minutes or so for some reason.

Uncle Buddy

December 7th 1941......

Makes me think of my Uncle Buddy.
I used to call him each yr. on this day for a few years and talk.

He was in the Navy during World War 2.

He played drums. When there was a concert the kids all booed the band that was playing first cause they wanted to hear Uncle Buddy's band. They didn't want to hear the old time music, they wanted to hear the new young kid stuff- Tommy Dorcey!

Uncle Buddy would say , wait I have a speech to make, before dinner and then just ramble on about anything and everybody would laugh and then eat dinner. After Buddy came home from the war he had a nervous side to him then.

His dog slept at the foot of his bed like it was waiting for him to come home. The dog died before he got home.

Uncle Buddy said he was glad they dropped the atomic bombs because the Japanese were just really getting going with the camacozy (sp?)

When the war was over they made the sailors paint the ship and give it to japan and they were MAD!

Anyhow I stayed a weekend with Uncle Buddy about 10 yrs ago (he died now about 5 yrs back) I said the next afternoon being very polite, well I guess I better get going now, and to my surprise he said What do you want to get going already Denny, stay another day, so I did. We had a great time and had big breakfasts and dinners and talked etc...

Anyhow Pearl Harbor Day makes me think of him.

Hey all

Iam making a pot of coffee now. (refer to the Weave's post)
I have been busy converting early 90s VHS tapes into DVDs on my computer
For the family at Christmas time we can all now see these.

Espresso Love

Well... not exactly. I don't like coffee. Never have. Something about the flavor just doesn't click with me.

Anyway, over the years there have been MANY times where I have tried to drink the stuff... with milk, cream, creamer, sugar, cocoa mix, and no matter what I have tried, it just hasn't been my thing, even when I was trying to chemically overcome the effects of fatigue. Nogo.

I was at the mall yesterday and decided to get a shot of espresso. I had it neat, and after "blowing" it off a bit (not enough - it still burned from being overly thermal), I managed to, in two gulps, down the thing.

Don't think I'll have another, but I conquered it. I owned it.

BTW - if you hold down control and tap the right arrow key it forwards you to the beginning of the next word (word skip). Not sure how long that has been a thing, but it is neat and it works!

Blog pimping

In case you missed it, we had one hell of a storm on Mau'i this week.

I wrote about it here

I'm dreaming of a ....

...White Christmas.  And we got it.  Since Sunday night about 14" of fluffy white stuff has landed. From the looks of the extended forecast, another 1" per day is due through Friday.  The ski slopes are ecstatic.  It's really pretty- the kind of fluff that covers the boughs of the pine trees and makes all the Christmas lights glow. If you go outside right now, (7:50 pm) it's quiet and peaceful.  Unfortunately, the weekend is coming and that means all the "Massholes" will be up with their snow machines, breaking the quiet with roars of engines, tying up traffic in our quaint little town, and fighting for first place in line at the grocery store.  Sucks living in a tourist destination.  (kind of the other side of the coin, Wil.  I know they are your bread and butter.)

Den has been invited

Heard from Den yesterday and an invite has been sent, but not responded to yet. He doesn't have Gary's addy. Maybe Weave or Den will send an invite to lilolmehere. Everyone who has signed up has full admin priviledges and can also send out invites.

Just go into "settings" and then "permissions" and follow the simple instructions.

Oh, we had sunshine this morning but it is clouding up again. Supposed to be like this until next week. Tourists hate it but we need the water. Bad.

I hope Mav~ (a/k/a/ Sal, DigiSal, Jay) comes on board too.

It's A Wonderful Life

I posted this elsewhere, also, but this post on Boing! Boing! had a pointer to a radio broadcast starring Jimmy Stewart of "It's A Wonderful Life". I nailed it last year and have returned to it again.

Boing! Boing! - It's A Wonderful Life

BTW - The Internet Archive carries a bunch of Old Time Radio shows. Kinda like serial audio novels with sound effects. :)

I was once at an MP3 Blog - forget the name of it - and the guy running it offered up an MP3 of Alice's Restaurant. He said for his family they would listen to Alice's every Thanksgiving.

Does anyone here have a traditional holiday listen? Discuss in the comments...

New Hampshire made CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc!!!

Some nut took hostages at Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters in Rochester, NH!!!

http://cnn.com  

Just a little excitement in the southern part of the state.

Extremes

You are in the faaaaaaaaar western US, me in the faaaaaaaaaar East. That's about as extreme as you can get!   Had snow and ice pellets today.  I admitted a new patient who lives on a mountain.  Actually, on top of a mountain.  3 miles, straight up, on a dirt road.  Now we've had snow, rain, freezing rain and a thaw in the past week.  That makes a dirt road MUD!  LOL  Gotta love a four wheel drive.  I put that baby in 4 wheel, down shifted and sailed up that little hill.  There's a little devilishness in me that would love a jeep!  I could haul butt all over this north country; over culverts, through streams, yeah... a little devil in me.  Just call me the home health hauling mama!  LOL

Have a good shift tonight!

B.

A Beautiful Picture

Its either a "Photo-Chopped" or an artists conception.

The "ex" sent this to me. A forwarded mass mailing. The accompaning text said that it was taken at sunset, at the North Pole, at the closest approach of the moon.

The last time the moon was this close to the earth was about 3.8 billion years ago, right after it was formed. The latest theory is that a Mars sized object struck the Earth with a glancing blow and the resultant debris eventually formed the moon. At the time of its formation the moon was only about 85,000 miles from the Earth (now about 247,000 miles away). This close proximity caused 1,000' tides in the newly formed oceans and is believed to have been a factor in the creation of the primordial "soup" that finally led to "life".

The Moon gets about 1 inch further away from the Earth every year.

Anyway, the pic is pretty but definitely not "real"

SNOW!! In El Paso

Saw this on the news tonight.

That is very rare.

Tim, is Patty and family still stationed there?

Need some help

I do not have an e-mail address for Moe, Sal , Den, Patty and Mother Weave. I really want to invite them to participate. If anyone can help, please do.

So now I'm a blogger!

I've left comments on other's blogs, but never started a post!  How ya' all doing?  Hope everyone has had their fill of turkey.  It's a beautiful sunny day here in the north country, but the temp is 18F with a wind chill of -1.  So, what's this global warming thing?  J/K. I'm including a recent pic of "the girls", just to try it out.  Hey, pretty cool!  Thanks for setting this up, Wil.

I may just have to start up my own nursing blog one of these days!

Welcome

Welcome to my friends from Mr.WeaveForums.com and survivors of webTv's ADWH newsgroup.

I hope all our refuges join up.

And to all the rest of you who just happened to stumble by.

All the refuges will be granted 24/7 access to make your own posts and generally screw around with the settings, etc.

I've set the time stamp for the Eastern Time Zone

Later
=8^))
Wil