Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays [was: Happy Holidays]

[Fairlight]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:00:08PM -0500, Bob Stockler, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> 
> Bob Stockler adds his Merry Christmas (and Happy Holidays
> for whatever other Holiday you're celebrating).

Likewise from Fairlight and Kelly!  :)

> Bob (the typical filePro Dummy Variable)

Heh...more like the not-so-typical non-dummy variable.  :)

> PS - We're trapped in our home in Louisville, KY by the snow
>      and ice storm we suffered yesterday afternoon and over
>      night.  We can't get our cars out of our garage, and it

Yeah, we have a little problem with that as well.  No garage, just the
parking lot.  Problem being that the wheels just spin on the ice under
them, we have no kitty litter, sand, or salt, the cab companies aren't
taking anything but emergencies, and at least the one dependable car rental
agency I've used here is entirely sold out.

To say we're inconvenienced at the moment is a bit of an understatement.
We -need- to get somewhere, and can't.

>      Thank goodness for my new IBM ThinkPad laptop with Wi-Fi
>      that lets me sit here in my family room on the couch,
>      with a fire in the fireplace across the room, the TV on,
>      and a winter world of white, or white capped, landscape
>      on view out of the 12 foot window wall to my left, all
>      the while being able to access (and write this) via
>      my SCO OSR 5.0.6 (or use my Windows Me or Red Hat Linux)
>      system upstairs in my computer room.

I have a nice view of my monitor, which for 8+ months has been at
brightness 255 because something in its settings blew a while back.  I just
go snowblind artificially.  :)

>      Nada and I had planned to have our daughters, their two
>      husbands, our five grandchildren, and a few others for a
>      Christmas dinner.  We've postponed that to make it a New
>      Years Day dinner.

Sounds safer.  Could be worse--I heard Indiana got 2.5 feet in some areas,
and they declared a state of emergency.  Personally, I find that
ridiculous.  I remember being a kid and having the sidewalk from our front
steps out to the main right-of-way sidewalk and even that being 3.5 feet
high with snow on both sides and we -still- dug out.  No whiny state of
emergency, etc.  Just plain silly.  "Oh my god!  A flake of snow!  Call the
governor!"  People south of I-80 don't seem to know how to handle winter
weather worth $0.10.  

I can handle it if we could just get the #@)%*! car out of the parking
lot--we're only 40 feet from the plowed throughfare!  Talk about
frustrating...  Driving isn't a problem.  Getting the car to move -is-.
Totally unprepared, as I thought it would be like 4", not 8-12+.

Off to try and find a rental car agency that has something.  Sha, right...2
days from Christmas.  That's gonna almost happen.  I can hope someone
cancelled though.

Bah humbug.  :)

Nah, seriously...annoyances aside, Merry Christmas, everyone!  Stay warm,
be safe.

mark->
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