One hell of a finale (?), a rescue tale MMP

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gotti, so the 'puters of IT folk still die, but y’all know how to rez them? That’s a neat skill to have!
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Ironic, isn’t it? At least now, y’all know that I truly practice what I preach!

The offending drive has been well and truly punished. It’s kind weird to look at the now loose platters and think that microscopically small patterns of magnetism are representing several thousand photos, emails and whatnot. Of course, I have no idea what’s on any one of the three platters other than a bunch of fingerprints.

My great-nephew had an endoscopy today. They didn’t find anything, but took a few samples for biopsy. I almost wish they had found something, then they could go about fixing it.

I’m on vacation until 1/3! YAY for time off. It’s cold out - I wonder how cold it has to be outside for the coke I have in the car to burst? The car’s sort of insulated, right?

'Night all. Off to bed with my Ny-Quil Liqui-caps and Kindle. No alarm for the next 11 days.

StG

Actually, the cake ended up ok. Not perfect enough to serve company, but with a little ganache, it was pretty tasty!

Ended up making a bunch of brownie with ganache topping. One batch had coconut on top, the other peppermint sprinkles.

It’s been a lot of baking of late!

Hi all, still feeling under the weather, came to work in a taxi. Bosswhogivesstrangeorders is now checking on our Gatekeeping status. We’ve spent a while chatting with New Programmer and given him a couple of Clue By Fours which I think y’all would be proud of:

  1. is it possible for you to ever let people speak? This would be a particularly relevant skill when you have asked them a question
  2. assuming that you know everything there is to know about someone’s experience after knowing them for two weeks leads to foot in mouth disease (this one came after he’d started a sentence with “well, since you two haven’t worked in the US” - adressed to two people with a combined 8 years in the US, oops).
  3. “Abroad” doesn’t mean “Germany”. If you want to ask about Germany, ask about Germany, not about abroad.

We may still get him edumacated on the ways of the world - that, or bruised-by-four.

Good morning all, or afternoon as the case may be. And first thing:

MERRYCHRISTMAS

Yes, I’ve got a bit of shopping left to do - grocery shopping and my daughter is going to hit Target for some last minute shopping, so that is why we are both up early and getting ready to head out. I’m just hoping that it won’t be too crowded at 7 am -and- more importantly that the grocery store will still have those snow crab clusters that are on sale for $5.99/lb! LOL I think they also have lobster tails on sale, so maybe if they don’t have one they’ll have the other. This is for supper tonight - I’m going to try to do the 7 fishes except mine is going to be seafood. :stuck_out_tongue:

At any rate, I hope everyone has a happy holiday season, whatever you celebrate!

Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. ‘Tis 29 Amurrkin outside. BRRR! I shall soon commence to purtify for my journey to the wilds of West Central Jawja. I may see a white Christmas. Ok, one to two inches of snow possibly. Or, just cold icky rain/ice. We shall see. It’s still more weather than da bear wishes to deal with no matter what it ends up bein’. No matter what, however, I must journey back to da cave on Sunday cause Monday is irk time again.

I shall attempt to sneak in a post from mom’s or sis’s place but in case I don’t…
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
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Morning everyone, and a very happy Hexmas Eve! It’s all bright and shiny outside today so I am hoping that temperatures might have risen a little and perhaps we’ll get a tiny bit of a thaw.

My friends left an update on farcebook today to say that Simon is going for a third brain scan today and that will determine whether or not he can be woken from his sedation, however they are not totally confident that he will recover from this. It’s very sad for them, and very worrying too, but at the moment all we can do is wait for more news. Thanks for the good thoughts and prayers though, it’s good to know that they’re in your minds.

I have very little planned for today, got some ironing and cleaning up to do, I’ve just wrapped my last gift so it’s all finished now and ready for tomorrow. We will be up early in the morning to go to my mum’s for the day so that will be a nasty shock for 'im indoors when he realises that he’s got to get up before most of the morning’s gone!

Still praying and thinking good thoughts for Simon.

It’s morning, which is irritating, but MR. LISSAR HAS ELEVEN DAYS OFF!!! Ahem. I’m a little excited. :slight_smile:

ok - now I am :mad: - this stoopit head cold is morphing into bronchitis

A Merry Christmas to all who follow Christ (or Radio Shak going by the commercials) and to all the rest of the Mumpers may this weekend be as happy and merry as you could wish.

Merry Christmas to one and all!

I have so much to do, but I’m up early to tackle all of it.

I would love to just snuggle on the couch in front of me tree with some coffee and enjoy the quiet, but alas and alack, I must forge on.

BooFae, I’m thinking good thoughts for Simon.

I am coming down with a cold. My head is stuffed up, and my sinus and the back of my throat hurt. Just in time to cook food for everyone! Yay…not.

I’m going to have pop lots of cold drugs.

Keeping Simon in my thoughts and prayers, BooFae, and his parents also.

I empathize. :frowning: Feel better
eta - Healing thoughts for Simon.

eata - Merry Christmas

Healing thoughts to all who need them.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

Lots of good thoughts and prayers headed out for Simon. Hope everyone who’s under the weather is feeling better really soon.

Yay for lots of days off for Mr. Lissar!

Hope everyone is having a nice day. I went to Tar-jay, World Market, the Pepperidge Farm outlet and the fancy supermarket. Lines weren’t too bad, so: Yay!

So, I’ve acquired all remaining presents and stocking stuffers and will now proceed to decorate the place (we’ve been dawdling). Later in the day, we’re going out to our favorite Chinese restaurant for an early dinner, then to church at 8. Not sure what’s on the agenda after that.

I’ll be making lasagna tomorrow and some assorted sides. I’ll probably get started on some of it today.

Hugs to all!

GT

Ho ho ho from Ocala, FL. I crashed just before 7 last night and slept like the dead till about 5:30 when Scruffy barked to go out. Then back in bed till just before 7 when I finally decided to get up and face the day. So I am officially rested. Yay!

I did my good deed this morning - downloaded a cleaner program on the inlaws’ old computer and cleaned it up. It had been ridiculously slow. I think it might need Windows reloaded, but if you do that, does it erase everything? i’m just computer savvy enough not to know that… anyway, the rest of the fambly has gone to Barnes & Noble and to HHGregg and I’m enjoying some quiet computer time. They’re supposed so come back with a wireless USB thingie for the old 'puter - we’ll see how that goes.

Other than that, it’s a chilly, sunny day here and I’m enjoying some leisure. No idea what MIL has planned for tomorrow, but there are packages under the tree, this after she told us NO PRESENTS!! But knowing her, something interesting and entertaining is afoot.

**BusDude **- yay for the walking cast!

Antiseptic wishes for the sickies, safe travel wishes for the travelers, hugs, gropes, and smoochies for all!!

Ho ho ho!!


I totally agree!

Merry Christmas!

I’ve got about half the food done, and Mr. Lissar has vacuumed. We’ll tidy as much as we can, but it will always look like a toy factory exploded, so I’m not going to stress.

Naptime and then giving Christmas baking to the neighbours, church, and then bedtime and stocking stuffing, yay!

Sneakin’ in a post from mom’s computer. I arrived safe and sound. Only one near accident. A fool swerved over into my lane on a two lane road. I said some very UnChristian words about him. :mad: No harm done though. Maybe I should go to church tonight instead of beer drinkin’ with sis and bil. Nah. Why spoil tradition, right? :smiley:

So far I have had a piece of homemade coconut cake, homemade red velvet cake and four homemade fried apple pies. I am amazed at my restraint. :smiley: OYKW marveled at my restraint also when I talked to him a little while ago. He has shown likewise amazin’ restraint in snarfin’ down German chawklit cake, homemade divinity and homemade fudge. As he put it, “I’m doin’ my best to leave some for the others tomorrow.” I praised him for his generosity and restraint. :smiley: He said there are homemade cookies of all kinds that he has not even touched. Now that folks is restraint cause his mom is a truly gifted baker of cookies. Agan, I marvel at the restraint.

The forecast for ick weather has been modified a bit. Now it’s rain/freezin’ rain ick with a possible half inch to an inch of snow that will clear out overnight on Sattidy night. That’s better than before when it was Sattidy afternoon into Sunday afternoon before clearin’ out. I gots to get myself home no matter what cause Monday be irk time again.
Right now it’s sunny, clear and 50 degrees out. Cool but really nice!

BooFae prayers and good thoughts headed out for Simon.

Ok, time to go do other stuff.

Later Y’all!

-swampbear (over abuser of the :smiley: smiley)

I can POST!!! kisses thar inter-webs

People, the 23rd was an interesting day for me. It was supposed to be a Half Day (all praise the powers that be! Half o Day Off!!!). And it was. It was to be a great day, one for getting things done, having fun. One that was to be memorable. How was I supposed to know that 23 is my unlucky number?

Our tale starts out on the NJ Turnpike, scooting to work. Granted, I was a little late after stopping at the Hallmark store…and maybe I wasn’t doing 55.
stop laughing, you. I heard that.

And thats when one of the the large 18-wheelers on my right kicked up a Very large rock for me (made me feel guilty; I didn’t get it Anything). And, Presto! My !st gift of the Season: a Golf-ball sized hole in middle of my windshield! ( XM radio!? Screw that, My car Whistles! Oh, wait, I gotta keep it quiet or everyone will want one… :rolleyes: )

OK, I was a little pissed. I mean, If the diameter of the hole is the size of a Silver Dollar, allowing for depth of glass & penetration… I’m guessing this thing was the size of a small whiffle-ball. But with a tad more Stopping-Power.
Hey! Practical use of Geometry! Thank You, Mr Smith! (Sorry we called you “Wombat”)
Also, thanks to various CSI type TV shows, with the neat little wooden dowels showing bullet trajectories, given the origin of the truck (ahead of me to my left) and the position of the drivers seat, I can determine that :

  1. The glass stopped it from going through.
  2. If it hadn’t, I would have been hit, w/o question, center-mass.
  3. I’m still here to say ‘Hi’ to Opal! (Og Bless Her!!!)

Now people, that would have been a fun day if it had been left at that, but the powers that be, however, sent me a bonus. Its like Billy Mays showed up as the Ghost of Karma Past & said, “But Wait! There’s More…!”
After finishing work & getting home, I sat down to what should have been a nice creative afternoon playing & posting before getting some take-out for dinner. And in fact, I was on-line, gaming…

*When from behind the PC there arose such a clatter,
I jumped from my seat to see whats the matter.
And there in a blue-flash spark, Extending half-a-foot,
Left dreams of game-play: with a Sizzle. A Pop. And some Soot!

No lights, pop-ups, no Norton in a jiffy.
No gurgles screams cries (not even from Clippy)
A large tower where once ran V-64.
She lay silent, quiet; she’d run here no more.

My wife took the news very calm, not a peep.
(…visions of killing me later on in my sleep?)
And after I’d reached the end of my tale
She reminded me its Xmas; (“This crap is on sale”)

We’d shop later on to see what offers lay,
and I asked “So honey, how was Your day?” :dubious:
Dopers, I wish Happy Holidays right here & right now
I leave to out run Yon Fist Of Death (somehow)*