What I Did With My Xmas Vacation, Pt. 1
Absolutely nothing, thanks to the combination of fatigue and no paycheck for three weeks, but since writing this keeps me from noticing that the sorry state of my bedroom, I did manage to squeeze out this:
BECAUSE LESS REALLY IS MORE
I can't resist advertising for the website Tackychristmasyards.com, on which you can view reindeer carcasses hanging from trees (made from lights, not real reindeer), a snowglobe that eclipses the house behind it, and gingerbread men running a recon mission to get The Fat Man before he infiltrates someone's chimney. Also worth viewing are the funny violations that the winners (losers ?) are sited with, such as "Multiple Clauses" and "King Kong Inflatables". Most of the shots are just horrible lighting displays, but if you have a few minutes and need a good laugh, it's worth scrolling down to the snowman stuck in the middle of a manger scene and looking embarrassed about it. You can also enlarge all the photos and finally answer that age-old question: What is that thing next to Santa on my neighbor's lawn ?
DELL STILL SUCKS IT
My new Inspiron seems to have been on sale for a reason. I spent all day yesterday and 2 hours this morning on the phone with tech support, reformatting my hard drive and listening to threats that I'll have to replace my motherboard, yet my mouse still charts its own course across my homepage and even clicked on the Dell products tab at one point in a desperate cry for help. While waiting for my overhauled BIOS to reboot, I chatted with my techies and learned that India is celebrating Christmas right now. Everybody is out partying in the streets- everybody except lowly Dell Tech Support agents, that is. Apparently in India, it doesn't matter what your religion is, you still party because it's a day off work and that's reason enough to celebrate. Sounds like a good philosophy to me- I'll celebrate anyone's holiday if I get to wear a funny hat.
DOES ANYONE HAVE A FORKLIFT I CAN BORROW ?
After losing my address book for the second time, I decided I'd better tidy up a bit and spent a few hours listlessly shifting items from one stack to another. So far, I've cleared a path to the window, in hopes that I might possibly be heard calling for help when one of my towering heaps moves glacier-like towards the equator and buries me under detritis as it passes through the living room. I've been able to avoid all pretenses of housework while running meaningless yet time-consuming diagnostics on my laptop for the past two days, but if it gets mailed off to Dell's top-secret repair bunker, I'm going to have to find another excuse not to pick up my shovel. I've considerd torching the place and starting over, but I'm sure that Fry's receipt I've been looking for is in here somewhere...
I'm taking a break today from daydreaming about Smartphones with 5 megapixel cameras (alas, poor Curve, we knew ye well, but you're no match for that Nokia), and may wander into Best Buy just to watch last-minute shoppers panic to the soundtrack of A Dean Martin Christmas. Hope you're all having as much fun as I plan to...
BECAUSE LESS REALLY IS MORE
I can't resist advertising for the website Tackychristmasyards.com, on which you can view reindeer carcasses hanging from trees (made from lights, not real reindeer), a snowglobe that eclipses the house behind it, and gingerbread men running a recon mission to get The Fat Man before he infiltrates someone's chimney. Also worth viewing are the funny violations that the winners (losers ?) are sited with, such as "Multiple Clauses" and "King Kong Inflatables". Most of the shots are just horrible lighting displays, but if you have a few minutes and need a good laugh, it's worth scrolling down to the snowman stuck in the middle of a manger scene and looking embarrassed about it. You can also enlarge all the photos and finally answer that age-old question: What is that thing next to Santa on my neighbor's lawn ?
DELL STILL SUCKS IT
My new Inspiron seems to have been on sale for a reason. I spent all day yesterday and 2 hours this morning on the phone with tech support, reformatting my hard drive and listening to threats that I'll have to replace my motherboard, yet my mouse still charts its own course across my homepage and even clicked on the Dell products tab at one point in a desperate cry for help. While waiting for my overhauled BIOS to reboot, I chatted with my techies and learned that India is celebrating Christmas right now. Everybody is out partying in the streets- everybody except lowly Dell Tech Support agents, that is. Apparently in India, it doesn't matter what your religion is, you still party because it's a day off work and that's reason enough to celebrate. Sounds like a good philosophy to me- I'll celebrate anyone's holiday if I get to wear a funny hat.
DOES ANYONE HAVE A FORKLIFT I CAN BORROW ?
After losing my address book for the second time, I decided I'd better tidy up a bit and spent a few hours listlessly shifting items from one stack to another. So far, I've cleared a path to the window, in hopes that I might possibly be heard calling for help when one of my towering heaps moves glacier-like towards the equator and buries me under detritis as it passes through the living room. I've been able to avoid all pretenses of housework while running meaningless yet time-consuming diagnostics on my laptop for the past two days, but if it gets mailed off to Dell's top-secret repair bunker, I'm going to have to find another excuse not to pick up my shovel. I've considerd torching the place and starting over, but I'm sure that Fry's receipt I've been looking for is in here somewhere...
I'm taking a break today from daydreaming about Smartphones with 5 megapixel cameras (alas, poor Curve, we knew ye well, but you're no match for that Nokia), and may wander into Best Buy just to watch last-minute shoppers panic to the soundtrack of A Dean Martin Christmas. Hope you're all having as much fun as I plan to...
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