I think we may see a movie tomorrow, kinda depends how early he gets to bed.

I'd love to see Sherlock Holmes. It won't happen tomorrow.

I thought I was looking forward to Xmas, and got a start on shopping relatively early (for me), but the closer it's been coming, the harder it has gotten. I meant to watch a bunch of Holiday favorites, and I haven't seen a single one. Since I'm pretty much heading to Maine from work (with a detour to get the car), I won't get a chance to now.

Oh well, I'm on for my usual trip out to see the Xmas lights with my brother and his wife tonight, and we'll end up at one of my sisters for dinner. Hopefully that will help.

I'm working most of the day today. But I think I can leave a bit early. Still have some errands to run.

My sister has decided she's cooking tomorrow. Spare ribs. I'll do the morning egg nog. And we're seeing a movie.

And we're done. That took all of 10 minutes for him to open everything.

I think I will call a neighborhood friend and see if we can go over to see her today. I have a gift for her, but also some stuff of hers to return. Might as well try to do something productive.

{{{Tom}}} It's a rough time and it sucks to be without support. I am very lucky to have a phone session on the 29th.

I think we'll take them to credit union tomorrow and see.

My credit union has a free coin counting machine. I lurves it.

Slounging at KBD's. Off to my folks in a few hours. (Ha! My iPhone auto-completed "slounging!")

I'm in PA at Mom's, we due to migrate North to my Aunt's in the Catskills for holiday togetherness, so online time will be severely limited -- so Happy Christmas all!

My iPhone auto-completed "slounging!"

It's a Christmas miracle!

Cracked looks at Elves: [link]

The elves have undergone some serious changes of late. Early examples of the species tended toward being small, ineffectual, and annoying. They spent a great deal of their time bothering humans with pranks that ranged from annoying (souring your cow's milk) to "beyond Punk'd" (luring horny young men into remote locations and killing them). Medieval peasants would likely have lumped them into the same category as rats and stray dogs, if they weren't so busy starving to death and being oppressed by royalty.

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Toward the end of the European renaissance, it appears the elves diverged into two distinct sub-species. The first consisted of the smaller, craftier elves, the kind that enjoy building toys or baking cookies. They maintained their predecessors' small, plump, ugly appearance, but they appear to have moved away from the habits of kidnapping peasant babies and killing livestock.

It is common knowledge that Santa Claus has been breeding and enslaving the minor elves for his North Pole "workshop" for centuries. No one knows where he captured his original stock, but some people have speculated that he took his reindeer sled to some isolated South Pacific islands in the 1600s to find mating pairs. (The big red sack hasn't always been used to transport toys...)

Mr. and Mrs. Claus took the chihuahua approach, selectively breeding their elves to be as small and amenable to training as possible. They attached bells to their hats and boots in order to more easily find any runaways on the vast emptiness of the North Pole. This is also why they are dressed in bright reds and greens: the better to stand out against the white snow.

Much more at the link

MONOCLES ARE BACK IN FASHION GENTLEMEN

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None of these characters, either real or fictional, wore a monocle because of poor eyesight. It is a common misconception that the glass circle is held in the poor eye to help give 20/20 vision. In fact the monocle is nothing more than a well-bred magnifying glass.

“It is always thought of an affectation,” says His Honour Judge Quentin Edwards who has used the glass most of his adult life. “But it is quite simply a clever device to help read small print or study something in detail. It is a quick and easy alternative to reading glasses and it is far more practical than carrying a pair of spectacles. I pull out my monocle to read the telephone directory, look at a menu or when I need to glance quickly at a document in court.

“You put it in your strong eye in the same way you use your strong eye to look through a microscope or fire a rifle.It is something you put in the eye when there is a need to magnify something. It is only in fiction that anybody wears a monocle all the time.”