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...