Facebook

In recent weeks I have come to seriously enjoy the connections and interactions I am having on Facebook.

It has me sorting through old photos and chatting with old friends I have not seen in years, even decades.

It has games too. Scrabble is fun. Mob wars is a total addiction.

If you are in Facebook, find me. Odds are I miss you. If you are not on Facebook, sign up damn you!

--And we have Firefly there...

Christmas Traditions

There are lots of Christmas traditions out there. Some are common like presents, Christmas trees, stockings hung from the mantle, baking cookies, feasting and many others. Some people open presents on Christmas Eve, some christmas morning.

Families develop their own traditions too. We have developed wonderful traditions. I seem to reload my PC OS every Christmas!

Brenda and I open presents with the kids at our house on the morning of Christmas Eve. We have a big Christmas breakfast together after the presents. Later we attend Christmas services and sing Silent Night softly in the candle light. After huggage the kids go home with Becky for Christmas morning, Part 2.

At our house we sleep in on Christmas morning. Well, Brenda sleeps in. I get up around 7am and make coffee and the Marty, Movie, Madness begins (60-something new movies this Christmas). When BR gets up she bakes. Something easy like muffins or Pop-n-Fresh cinnamon rolls.

We usually have a food theme for the day. Something to eat as we watch movies. Massive party platters of shrimp, just for the two of us has been popular. This year it was desserts all day. I'm still full from all the cookies. It must have been a hundred cookies, and fifty of those gold ball Rochelle chocolate things. Plus, I learned the joy of Ready Whip in a can!

--Total movie madness, all day. ALL WEEKEND!

Merry Christmas!!

The best explanation I ever heard was the one Linus gave to Charlie Brown...

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And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

And the angel said unto them,

Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

--LUKE 2:8-14

[RIP] Majel Barrett

Majel Barrett died this week.

For the two people out there that do not know who she was, she was Nurse Chapel on the original Star Trek TV series. More than that, if you close your eyes and imagine what a computer would sound like if it could talk it would be her voice you would hear.

I met Ms. Barrett at my first SciFi convention at the University of South Alabama in 1982.

She was talking about the pilot episode called "The Cage" where she was the first officer Number 1. It was later that she was re-cast as the ships nurse.

--Rest in Peace Majel. Say hi to Gene for us.

Local sheriff’s deputy arrested on child porn charges

A 65-year-old Prince William County sheriff’s deputy is under arrest on charges of possession of child pornography.

Investigators say they found more than 900 such images on the computer of Deputy Arthur Staples.

Last week authorities in St. Lucie County, Fla., contacted the Manassas City Police Department about a child pornography suspect in Manassas City. Manassas police searched Staples’ home Friday. Police said they were seeking evidence that he was distributing child porn.

Staples was being held Tuesday without bail and will be extradited to Florida, where he will face charges of using the Internet to trade pornographic pictures of children.

--Bastard

Rule Number One: Don't Panic

I almost died today.

Seriously. I choked on my lunch today. I know now, that in my entire life, I never have really choked before. Today, like many other days, I was working through lunch. I often do this to make sure I don't have to work late. Some days I don't even bother warming up my lunch and just wolf it down. Like today...

A piece of pork loin firmly lodged in my throat. I was helpless. I could not swallow it, couldn't breath, couldn't cough or gag or do anything.

20 seconds of abject Fear. Fear for Brenda and the kids and never seeing The Hobbit filmed with real people.

I actually thought to myself, "If you don't act now you are dead." Rule Number One was invoked. I didn't panic.

I wasn't going to be one of those people who are too embarrassed to ask for help. I figured coworkers were a 10 second walk away. 15 seconds to communicate the point. Then say hello for Mr. Heimlich.

As I moved to get up the piece of meat shifted. My epiglottis was freed and air moved. I stifled a cough and gag and worked on swallowing that cinder block. It went down eventually. Once water seemed like a good idea I drank a quart quickly.

Mom was right. "Marty! Chew your food!"

--Rule Number One: Don't Panic

Still Keeping it Real...

Repo Man Sequel Starts Filming Next Month

Posted on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 12:12 am by: Peter Sciretta

Alex Cox’s Repo Man sequel Repo Chick is finally going into production next month (January 2009). Production Weekly reports that David Lynch is producing the project.

The original 1984 film told the story of Otto, a newly hired repossession man who goes in search for a mysterious Malibu carrying a high value package which was taken from a government lab and has strange effects on anyone who views it.

Cox has previously said that the follow-up will “unfold against the background of the credit crunch and the subprime mortgage crisis in the US, where repossessions of homes, cars and other forms of property is at a new high. ‘The repo business has expanded to everything from boats, houses, aeroplanes, small nations…children”.

-- Please don't make this Suck!!