The one day a year when (((I))) can point and make fun without fear of being thrown down a well. Until tomorrow. It’s actually been pretty quiet here, between the students being gone and the weather being unfriendly, unless you like windy, bitter cold and whiteout conditions. The dog I’m sitting has refused to go out for almost three days, and his bladder has to be as distended as Lizzo’s gunt. No matter, I acknowledge that it’s December 25, and wish all of you a Merry Chilly Goy Day.
But despite the supposed holiday, (((we))) at least have to acknowledge birthdays, which today include a guy with some gravity; the star of Naughty Nurses: The Original, whose career arc was typical of “non-profit” leaders, and had a country estate almost next door to us; a woman who was made up; the progenitor of many generations of shitty cars; an actor who was typecast and did great with it; another guy I’d be happy to do some lines with; a guy who did great and was rewarded for it as expected; a short guy with an outsized impact; a quarterback who was always amazing fun to watch; a Team Red piece of shit who still plagues us; a contender for the best all-around baseball player since Ruth; and a bearded Zoolander, who got his father’s ethics and his mother’s intellect.
Let’s get a-linkin’.
Wait, didn’t we do this story last week?
I’m still not sure if anyone is bothering to follow this sideshow anymore.
My predictions are going mainstream.
How about let anybody have a beard? Why does it have to only be an option because of religion?
Putting aside the now-obligatory affirmation that sex isn’t binary but a “spectrum,” this is actually pretty cool research.
This is my favorite Christmas song ever. It’s the only one I’m aware of with Joseph’s POV and dealing with the practicalities of actually having the baby Jesus. And don’t let the pic fool you- Maggie doesn’t sing this, she’s just the eye candy Southpaw uses to sell albums.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Merry Christmas all — something I can share with the rest of you curmudgeons, especially since I’m still on the younger side of this group.
Don’t know if it was because the last two weeks of work (after I did the online shopping) was fairly busy or a sign of impending cognitive decline (hope not! 😉 ) — but when unboxing my lazy-enough-to-select-gift-options-ordering presents for the family… I realized I didn’t remember most of what I got them. ;P At least I’ll share in their surprise later today….
Since most of y’all are over in the gelid side of the country, stay safe – stay warm – enjoy your loved ones, whoever / whatever / from whatever warped space-time dimension they are. Thanks for the snark this past year. Renew my request for a non-Paypal / check address or something… still don’t want to do any business with them again.
It would only take one string of text inside an HTML paragraph block to implement Monero or Bitcoin donations… just sayin’
Call Swiss, then get crackin.’ That would be a great Christmas present for Glibs.
The best way to get Swiss’ attention is with a pun thread.
The Glib Foundation treasurer must be consulted. I am the General Counsel.
We have the bank end of this to consider as well.
A wallet address controlled by the members of the Glibs legal structure is all the backend you need to do crypto donations (you could host the wallet anywhere). Copy the address in a p block on the donations page, and people can send any amount they desire (stroll to the bottom of the DistroWatch page for an example). Of course, to convert that to fiat you’d need a Glibs corporate account on an exchange. Unless our host accepts crypto – few do. e
Maligayang Pasko
I’ve been meaning to watch Night Gallery since I downloaded it 2 years ago…
WDATPDIM?
Well, it let JI gloat some yesterday from what I saw on a quick links perusal. Other than that, not much it seems.
Not gloating my friend, more despairing about how desperate people can be to believe in some thing. And alternately frustrated by the cynicism of the uni-party (and this I can partake in) mixed with the expectation that Republicans are somehow supposed to make things right. It’s a big stew of stupid if you ask me, and I don’t like the taste of it, not even the smell coming from the kitchen.
I haven’t really followed this particular lawsuit, but I do believe elections in the United States are a complete and utter joke. I think to place any faith in the results of elections run by the people who brought you the DMV and the Post Office requires a lot more desperation than skepticism. And I’ve held that view ever since I lived through the Gregoire v. Rossi election in WA that set the template for the entire nation going forward. It’s not a Trump bugaboo.
Incompetence in the performance of governmental duties? Heaven forbid! Yeah, I’m totally with you on that – so sure, you could mix in some corruption (soft or hard), and it could be all but impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. And as long as enough people are satisfied with the results, guess what – we’re the crackpots.
Well we’re used to that
🎵 Weeee’re on the island of misfit toooooooys… 🎶
Satisfied, or resigned to being unable to do anything about it? Making a fuss over rigged elections is a good way to get yourself cast into outer darkness.
Because the military is about discipline and conformity. Some things just don’t align well with our individualist liberty maximalism.
I thought it also made gas masks almost impossible to seal properly.
That’s definitely the case, it’s also a convenient thing to grab in a hand to hand fight.
The evidence is inconclusive. Prohibitions on facial hair date back to the revolution though – gas masks certainly weren’t the reason then. It’s more about uniformity.
Lack of shaving didn’t seem to impede the Civil War.
Or the Israeli army.
I have the distinct impression that a fair portion of the IDF shaves, at least their legs. 😉
This – that guy is dead in a gas attack. He won’t enjoy training sessions in the gas chamber either.
A certain German WWI vet started a trend of even trimming his mustache really close to make sure he got a good seal on his mask.
Always thought that practice was a remnant of the old Roman policy of short hair and shaved faces for their troops in order to reduce body lice. Doesn’t seem necessary in today’s world. Maybe out in the shit it might still be a practical practice, I don’t know.
Just putting it out there that our military might benefit from Sikh soldiers, their whole religion seems based (or at least strongly encourages) on armed resistance.
Merry Christmas to the collective gliberati. Continuing an annual tradition begun during my hiatus, I will quote from the gospel of Luke, reminding us that this is, after all, a religious holiday. Today we venerate the birth, paraphrasing C.S. Lewis, of either the son of God and savior of humanity, or the most influential and important lunatic who ever lived.
And a happy 7th night of Chanukah to those so celebrating. 2,186 years later Jerusalem remains free of Seleucids, but that’s all the more reason to remain vigilant.
Thank you for sparing us Matthew and the begats. That’s one that always tries to put me to sleep if they’re crazy enough to read it at Midnight Mass. Merry Christmas, Pat.
The lineage was important in that time since they were pitching the Messiah to fellow Jews, but there’s no reason to include it in a Christmas service in the current year. Luke is my favorite gospel in any case. Mark is a pale imitation of Luke, and John is shot through with historical inaccuracies and bizarre embellishments of events better recorded in the rest of the gospels. Of course, being the latest chronologically, Luke had a chance to synthesize the extant texts and oral histories more cohesively.
John is the most hellenistic of the gospels, from the very first sentence.
Thank you, Linus Van Pelt. 😉
Thanks, Pat! Just got done reading Luke, my favorite. We seem to have a similar translation.
Merry Christmas!
That’s from the ESV. I grew up with the NIV, but prefer the more literalist NASB and ESV nowadays.
I believe my NT translation is from the NKJ.
‘Jerusalem remains free of Seleucids, but that’s all the more reason to remain vigilant.’
I wouldn’t put it past the Greeks.
The IDF waves hello.
“I’m still not sure if anyone is bothering to follow this sideshow anymore.”
I don’t know who is still following it, but electing someone who can’t run an election to run an entire state is still stupid.
She has run the last two elections exactly as she was supposed to.
It is a sideshow. The courts are completely unsuited to unscrewing a stolen election (if any). The idiot Repubs in AZ refused to fix the elections after 2020 because they didn’t want to get any Trumpist election denier stink on themselves, and now they can kiss major statewide offices goodbye for the foreseeable future.
Best laid plans of mice and men.
The ballot counts, which “surprisingly” didn’t happen, along with the SOS’s conflict of interest should, in any lawful society, be enough to prove Lakes case, but the powers that be are going to push this as far as they can, not realizing that Pandora’s box is wide open.
Sloppy election processes may be the lesser of our real worries these days. And as far as partisan consideration, the Dems have denied election results themselves, cough 2000 cough.
Even 16…
Russia stole the election after all.
Nuh uh!! /Dem partisan.
But, all joking aside, we all know they have, see HRC, Stacy Abrams Tank, algore, and so on. Every close election spurs denial by the loser, no matter the party affiliation. And we know how to get out of this: voter ID, no mail in voting, and so on. There are people who are in positions of power who want to keep the ability to put their thumbs on the scale. We see this with the FBI and Twitter (as show explicitly by Taibbi), and that is leading to all social and mainstream media, as pointed out by Pat in other parts of this mornings thread. But far too many people do not want to take these issues seriously, or even allow mention that there is a problem. But, as I said, Pandora’s box is wide open at this point, and they need something to either pull us back from more and more people looking sideways at any election results or suffer the complete loss of credibility that they rely on to keep the masses docile.
Trump third party: I think Trump would cut a deal with DeSantis to leave the race and endorse in a behind the scenes deal for a blanket pardon and ending the harassment he gets. Even that bonehead has to realize that alienating everyone is a losing proposition and he could pretend to be a kingmaker.
I suspect you give Trump too much credit.
Just as I gave too much to Trump supporters – chatted last night with a neighbor who is still convinced that Trump is fabulously wealthy and that’s why he doesn’t pay income taxes.
Trump will get pissed if he is not the republican candidate, and he will go third party. And his chances of being the republican candidate are slim to none. No major republican wants him there.
No major Repub wanted him the first time, either. They hate him so much they will throw away anything – legislative majorities, state offices, you name it – just to thwart him.
Or, do as Florida has done, and Virginia too. They won before without him, they can win again.
Georgia too I should add – where only the poor candidate who had Trump’s favor was the loser. Hmm, what could that possibly say?
It seems to me there is a growing portion of Republican voters who are done with him.
He won not by drawing in the Republican base, but by pulling in people that don’t normally vote (or vote Republican – he did after all collect some former Obama voters).
The key would be to include non harassment of his kids. For all his faults he does seem to care for them.
Perhaps my modest means inspire a provincial conception of “fabulously,” but by my standard I’d consider Trump fabulously wealthy, even in his current depleted condition. What that has to do with his income taxes, I know not.
Wealth usually gets reflected somewhat in income – unless you are land rich and dirt poor.
I mean, his deal was branding and real estate. He can’t do branding anymore, so that probably puts him in the land rich cash poor category, for tax purposes anyway. In any case, I’d be ecstatic to be that broke some day.
Haven’t given it that much attention, but apparently he had something like a $700M loss some years back that he’s been carrying forward to offset then-current year taxable income. Just as the tax code allows – which is what makes all of the political carping (from the people responsible for tax law) all the more galling.
I think he deducted some business losses to have a low overall rate and is highly leveraged like everyone in real estate. It became the basis of various attacks on Trump’s net worth and business acumen.
Doesn’t matter one bit in national elections for the foreseeable future. There is no way anyone but a Dem wins with our current corrupt system.
On the other hand, the sooner the Republican Party dies, the better.
an actor who was typecast and did great with it;
I’ve never understood why the Betty Persky/Humphrey Methot relationship is supposed to be *the* Hollywood romance to end all Hollywood romances.
An unique perspective. I hate that vocal styling though. Interestingly, the historical evidence suggests Joseph and Jesus would probably have been stone masons or builders. Tekton can refer to a whole host of different craftsmen, and Nazareth was geographically much more suited to a mason than a woodworker.
Merry Christmas whippersnappers!
OMWC, I see some towns are banning driving due to the storms. Hope you are not being detained.
Why did the libertarian chicken cross the road?
A classic.
Audit the Audit gives that chicken an A+. 😉
Only voluntarily. I just don’t want to leave the house. Fortunately, I’m well-stocked.
Taibbi exposes still more govt dishonesty and hypocrisy.
And then nothing happened because half of the country is fine with all of this as long as it isn’t targeting them and reform is viewed by those who would be doing the reforming as a diminution of their power and influence. We’re in trouble.
More here:
“Didn’t they have anything better to do?! Latest Twitter Files show how FBI inundated social media network with so many requests to tackle obscure accounts posting ‘misinformation’ that staffers had to triage Bureau’s emails”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11572377/Latest-Twitter-Files-FBI-inundated-social-media-site-requests-tackle-obscure-accounts.html
At least I hope it means I won’t have to hear any more “it’s a private company” nonsense, which was always flat out retarded.
I’m not convinced they’ve stopped, either.
Oh they’ve flipped the “private company” narrative completely – now it’s all about how it is a public platform and Musk is destroying it’s credibility as one. The fuckers never stick to a losing message – they move right on regardless of how illogical or idiotic the messages are (old or new). The hobgoblin of small minds these days is mercurial belief, not any kind of consistency.
Not only were they furiously censoring true information at home, the Pentagon was aggressively disseminating lies abroad. Twitter did not stop them as it claims to do or attach the “government-affiliated account” label that it gives to Russian and Chinese media.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/
Funny, if you look at the Twitter accounts blamed for associating Ukraine with Nazis (point #42), it’s a bunch of high profile anti-war activists and journalists, but also “JoeBiden” and “POTUS”.
Merry Christmas!
Sorry it’s still brutal there. Tell King to man up and drag his three-legged carcass outside.
Then give him some steak because he’s a good boy!
I have no idea why I woke up so early today. It’s like a ghost of Christmas past.
What’s everyone got on the schedule today?
I’m actually up late, not early, so I’ll be in bed soon, up in the afternoon, drinking Woodford Reserve, watching the last of my Christmas movies, and eating some nice ham to celebrate the birth of the world’s most famous Jew…
Got the bacon cooked for breakfast, pancakes going on once Mrs. JI awakens (she’s a sleepyhead). Nothing in particular for the two of us to do, but there is a nice small prime rib roast to be cooked for the evening feast.
Nice.
Got some bacon-wrapped filets in the fridge for later. Looks like a lazy day on tap for us too.
“bacon-wrapped filets”
What time shall I be there?
Well, I get up at my usual time, 5am, sitting around until the wife gets up, 8am. Then she has to finish waking up, 10am. After that it’s stockings, which is all we are doing, as we are adults who buy ourselves what we want and need during the year. Then its dog park, cutting some wood for a machine base, calling my son, dinner and beer.
Oh, I need to reinstall a toilet somewhere in there too.
Take my old boy to the dog park, make him (and me) some pancakes, then football mixed with a nap.
Good morning, Merry Christmas, and happy Last Night of Hanukkah (if I’m doing the math right) Old Man, Count, SDF-F, Roat, Pat, Stinky, RCD, JI, R.J., Ted’S, and Tundra!
Which father?
Morning and Merry Christmas GT.
You could kick off quite a debate on nature versus nurture with that question.
The festivities end tomorrow at sunset, but Jewish days start at sunset, so now I’m not sure.
Tonight is the last night.
Merry Christmas to ever Glib and non-glib.
May you be warm and well fed today.
Merry Christmas, ‘bodru, you good shepherd you! 🐏🐑
Im just gonna daydrink in my room,
Lonely sucks
We’re a click away, brother.
Thanks Tundra,
Indeed. Later tonight I’ll be on Zoom. Come say hi.
That would be interesting
*waves*
🎄🎀⛄
🍻
Ho ho ho.
Next, on the Hallmark Channel: “Brooksie and His Three Hos”
The truth about Covid McCarthyism
The beauty of having completed the march through the institutions is that everybody knows their role without having to be directed from above anymore. There is no need for any smoking guns and therefore none will be found.
I really enjoy that limey. He will say what’s on his mind come hell or high-water.
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BR can DIAF. Humbug.
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agreed
Also chumped on BR. Who cares about the rest.
Merry Christmas, BR. Bah.
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Peace and goodwill to all men
A leading member of the Jan. 6 select committee said Friday he “really would be surprised” if Attorney General Merrick Garland doesn’t act on the panel’s criminal referrals and indict former President Donald Trump for his conduct relating to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“I do think it’s very important that we establish that it’s not just foot soldiers but kingpins who are prosecuted,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who announced criminal referrals against Trump and others for possible violations of four federal statutes at the committee’s last hearing. “And it’s just wrong to send hundreds of foot soldiers to jail and leave the very clear kingpins unprosecuted.”
Speaking on the final episode of Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast, Raskin added that Trump “conspired to defraud the government [and] American people. He traded an honest election for a profoundly corrupt and fraudulent election with counterfeit electors. … And he aided and assisted and gave aid and comfort to insurrectionists at multiple points. … I’m very serious about him facing the consequences and paying for the cost of his actions.”
So serious, Raskin said, that Trump could spend “the remaining days of his misanthropic life behind bars, presumably with Secret Service agents. … I mean, would [the Secret Service agents] be standing outside the bars, or would they be inside the bars? Who knows?”
Oh, how we hates him.
I’m reading Malice’s White Pill right now. Funny how this shit mirror almost exactly the ’30s Soviet Union.
Both are essentially identical to that other political form of the 30s.
I wonder if there will be a softcover version.
Not sure. His others did.
I just got the Kindle version.
Who’s going to tell them that he can still run for Pres even from behind bars?
Merry Christmas Glibronis!
Also, since today is Christmas Day, Glibs will be running an atypical Sunday schedule. Apologies in advance to authors and readers for the lack of prior notice. All times are server (US Central) times.
11:00 AM – TOK brings us a very special Christmas story, his first foray into fiction.
1:00 PM – IFLA
3:00 PM – A very special edition of GlibFit.
Many thanks to TPTB and the contributors. This little community means a lot to me.
Yes.
I’m very grateful to all of you.
Scientists find secret to how glass frogs turn transparent
Invisibility cloaks soon.
Neat!
The glass frog – which is about the size of a marshmallow –
Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system*.
*Which is a good thing.
“which is about the size of a marshmallow”
Because there is a standard size for marshmallows?
While there is no international standard, “regular” (s’mores) “mini” (hot cocoa) and “jumbo” (type II diabetes) seem to be the main designations, and the brands are all fairly close. If no “mini” or “jumbo” is specified, I presume the size to be “regular” s’mores size. Banana for scale.
Fellow Fallout 4 fans, look what I got today:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/WEUspFlgSy-GXlvgvWcUsQ.VvkbP4r41k4WGQoyR7Y84a
The lake is half frozen over. My parents are arguing over Wordle in the kitchen. I’m full of coffee and eggs Benedict. All is right with the world.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Merry Christmas, ES!
46 degrees here already. Crazy.
The expatriation article has a graph of searches for “move to Canada”. All when you would expect – the election of Bush and Trump – but also a small bump when Biden was elected. Lefties? I can’t imagine Republicans seeing the Covid tyranny and considering that for a second.
That and their new restrictions on guns.
Merry Christmas glibbies
Merry Christmas, Pie!
You at the lake?
I am at my moms place there is a small lake
“It Wasn’t His Child” by Trisha Yearwood.
That baby Dont Look Like Me
-Shawty Puff
“The report is 845 pages long, and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie couldn’t help but notice a glaring omission:
January 6th committee to adjourn without fulfilling year old promise to release Epps transcript.”
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/12/23/rep-thomas-massie-cant-help-but-notice-something-missing-from-the-j6-committees-final-report/
I’m no fan of conspiracy theories but that is damn suspicious.
“After extensive research, I’ve concluded that for Santa to deliver presents to the billions of homes that celebrate Christmas, and to do so in one continuous night across 24 time zones, he & his reindeer must open wormholes through the fabric of spacetime between each delivery.”
https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1606786528407158784
SCIENCE!!!!
Look, I know the impulse to try to feel like the smartest person in the room, but the end result is usually being a smartass. Nobody likes a smartass.
Nailed it.
NDT is an ass.
Yeah – screw NDT and that Asian guy whose name escapes me at the moment. Michelle Thaller is da bomb!
Michio Kaku?
Yeah, that guy. All I could think of was Seiji Ozawa, and I knew THAT wasn’t right.
Productive
On Friday, Congress wrapped a bow on two impressive achievements that make this one of the most consequential legislative sessions in recent memory. And it was all done without nuking the filibuster or attaining a 60-vote Senate majority, which many observers believed was the only way to jumpstart Congress.
AP’s Lisa Mascaro wraps up the last two years with a nice look at what was achieved:
“In many ways, the chaos of the Capitol attack created a new coalition in Congress — lawmakers who want to show America can govern. With President JOE BIDEN in the White House, the Democrats who controlled Washington found new partners in a wing of the Republican Party eager to push past the [DONALD] TRUMP years and the former president’s repeated lies about a stolen election that led to the Capitol siege.”
Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER, for one, is giddy about the results: “These two years in the Senate and House — in the Congress — were either the most productive in 50 years [since the] Great Society, or most productive in 100 years since the New Deal.”
We’re all giddy, now.
“Pray we don’t alter the Deal further.”
Minor game frustration – Devs put “Stealth takedown” and “ranged attack” on same button with two other features. Game decides based on context which to use. So if your target wanders one pixel out of stealth takedown range, you make a noisy, attention-grabbing ranged attack instead. The keymapping does not allow for separating these actions to different keys to that a failed stealth takedown does nothing instead.
Why would you overload keyboard controls with ‘context actions’ so dramatically different which can screw over the player for such pointless errors. I know, I know, it’s the result of a lazy port from console code.
Three-quarters of a lifetime ago, I was an aspiring classical organist. Going into a winter recital one year, my instructor decided that I needed a technical challenge — and found it in “For Unto Us A Child is Born,” from Messiah. The piece took me months to play semi-competently, and to my thinking, I never did master it. Maybe that’s the reason that it has remained one of my favorites through the succeeding decades.
Bonus link of the same piece played on solo organ. It really makes for a great recessional during a Christmas Eve or Day service. Amazing how you can (almost) replace an entire orchestra and choir with ten fingers and two feet.
These euphemisms, and on Christmas no less!
Nice. I’ve long assumed that organ playing involves some kind of sorcery not available to mere mortals.
TT’s piano/organ teacher – who built a pipe organ in an addition onto his house – said you could play any darn thing you wanted during communion as long as you played it at about a quarter of the original tempo and in a minor key.
I absolutely flooooove that piece. I love the entire thing, but that one is special.
I love pipe organs. They were the Marshal stack of the time. Powerful, awe inspiring music you could feel as well as hear.
I worked for a eccentric wacko that built his house around two pipe organs he bought from old churches. He would play them like a hick Phantom of the Opera.
I was fascinated by the mechanics of them. I could imagine the old one used tens of people to power them during a performance.
The mechanics/mechanisms of old pipe organs are absolutely fascinating. Each key connected to a valve of sorts, each pipe of that pitch on that keyboard sharing a wind source. Stop knobs to open or close the wind to specific voices. A giant crossbar switch, if you will, built of wood, leather, and metal. All under the control of two hands/ten fingers, and two feet, in a console that engulfed the performer.
Most excellent!
Meanwhile, Rep. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-N.Y.) voted against the bill and Rep. RASHIDA TLAIB (D-Mich.) voted “present”— by proxy! (Also: RIP proxy voting.) More from Sarah Ferris, Nick Wu and Olivia Beavers
Not commie enough!
This and if it’d been a more narrow margin they’d have voted for it.
To be fair, she did state that she didn’t like the increased military funding or something. And supposedly the Dems “caved” in some manner regarding the southern border but I’ll believe that when I see it.
Here’s one
Build that wall!
Searches for “move to Canada”. What kind of moron would think moving to Canada would be the best move to get away from perceived US tyranny?
Merry Christmas!!!!
According to the weather service, it’s 40 degrees outside. If the sun would just come out…
Mornin’, and a Merry Christmas to all!
St. Nick and I have something in common – we are both avid pipe smokers. Well, I am; apparently the jolly old elf stopped smoking in 2012.
Is nothing sacred?
Thomas Bowdler lives, and identifies as female.
Santa shot first.
Headline:
Don’t call 911 if your pipes are frozen.
Clement Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas”
I read that as “Clayton Moore” at first, and wondered if Tonto was up on the roof holding the horses.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY do I have to wait for my daughter to get up?!?!?!
What, you don’t own an airhorn?
Firecrackers in a coffee can. You might need to clean some sheets and underwear afterwards.
Hope she’s feeling better and can go back to work tomorrow.
you don’t
Merry Christmas 🎁 Glibs!!!
I hope you all enjoy your selves today, make others happy, and allow others to do the same for you!
My MIL and Mrs. Time will be celebrating the early afternoon together, then we will be feasting with two California transplants who are new friends who would be eating Chinese normally this time of year.
+1 My people
so what is everyone drinking
https://www.vivino.com/IT/en/domini-veneti-collezione-pruviniano-appassimento-rosso/w/9904938
Tall Cans!
Cheers pie🍻
you cant drink beer for Christmas what would Jesus say/.
I’m only drinking Kahlua and coffee right now. I’ll be drinking a super Tuscan and a few gin martinis later.
super Tuscan – how untraditional . drink a Brunello like a proper person.
They both have their place in the world.
Tea. It was a Christmas present!
what kind of tea
Congu (black). It’s apparently from Keemun province. Really quite good. Heavily fermented. Cocoa and gamey notes.
at least put some rum in it
I was thinking brandy, but you’re right — rum would be better in this.
French roast.
Straight up.
Same. A handful of snickerdoodles for a chaser.
MERRY GLIBMAS EVERYONE!
I am in such a good mood and I haven’t even begun drinking yet!
Up at normal time, light breakfast of toast and coffee, watch the sun rise. Play with Lily. Give her a Christmas present early, because if she decides to consume the entire bone, we’ll want her digestive system to respond before bedtime.
Take Lily to the dog park. Rejoice in how much warmer 16 degrees is than 6. Seriously.
Home again. Catch up on Glibs. Make brunch of duck fat rosti and fried eggs. Close out the meal with tea and cookies.
I am in such a good mood – well you are wrong
about being in a good mood with no booze i mean
Delicious food makes me happy. Potatoes fried in smoked duck fat are delicious.
It’s amazing how ten degrees makes a huge difference. You also get used to the bitter cold quick in the North East, since it will usually be back to 50 a week later.
Yup. This fall, 40 was cold, but now above 25 is “no gloves or hat required.”
I tried to explain to some Arizona natives once what 45 degrees felt like in the spring after a long Iowa winter.
The sun comes out and you are ready to strip and run naked through the streets because the air doesn’t hurt anymore.
You know what’s weird? Telling your boss you love her (because you met her your junior year of college and it’s a group text between college pals)
Christmas is All Around Me
“Yep! Solid gold shit, maestro!”
He was the best part of that movie.
Well, him and the Sconnie girls.
Ooooh, I cleaned up!
Santa Husband got me a micro portable printer (the paper is 2×3 sticker paper). Christmas from XY involved the word “Craftsman.” XX and my mom got us cash, which is always the right shape, size, and color. And in our stockings, as per recent tradition, was a pound of homemade kielbasa from “the sausage store” for each of us. The cats got to play with ribbons. I managed to make my mom a thing that she loves instead of an insipid gift card. I overheard her telling my aunt that buying something like that is unaffordable for what it’s worth.
Of course we know that Christmas isn’t about gifts. I was telling XX we could have Christmas dinner or graze on last night’s party leftovers, and I would make her cheese Christmas danish, and we have cinnamon rolls my aunt made for us. Then I realized that for all the crap we’ve been through, we’ve never gone hungry. We are in a good place. XX is happy with her job (except full time is still a pipe dream for her). XY is in a position to get the help he needs.
Anyway, the point is that the year started out sucking big fat donkey balls, but has ended up quite lovely.
And of course I have you all, with whom I’ve formed meaningful relationships, which could not have happened at TOS, so I’m grateful this place exists.
Merry Christmas!
“the sausage store”
Nice euphemism.
You never disappoint. 😉
Merry Christmas! Thanks to the PTB and all the commentators for giving me another year of time killing laughs and WTF’s.
Oh, and going to my sisters and BIL, for mom’s side. Taking homemade egg nog, thanks to the glib site, and homemade mead.
I have nice weather tech stuff on my floorboards, totally frozen.
This weather is ridiculous
I am fucking out of here
12/28