T1 has finished her Masters work

Her paper is submitted, defended, and edited. She'll be headed cross-country in January to work in D.C.

Finally, for k & P, the time has come.

The gifts of the season.

We will be joyfully entertaining, with much gratitude, all who visit us this Xmas holiday. We will have turkey and all the stuff that goes with it. Anyone who desires may bring any alcohol of his/her choice. We will order or buy pretty much whatever food anyone wants.

We have pretty lights in the windows and a red on red tree. We have warm (heated with electric pads) beds for each and every one. We even have a glowing stove in one room.

We have a ramp out the back door to sled on if the weather should allow. The ramp does, however, have a bump every three boards to stop a wheelchair from careening into the shed in back should the pilot lose control. This might hinder the sled thing, or at least cause bruised butts.

What we do not have is purchased items to give to each family member.

We are grateful to be able once more to celebrate our love for all of you and your love for us. Your love is made abundantly clear to us by the effort you make to spend time with us whenever you can. Please let that gift of love, which could not be surpassed by anything money might buy, be what we share this season.

We eagerly anticipate the get-together.

PS: Don't bring ham.

It's All Fun and Games 'Till Somebody Drowns

Funny and morbid, they don't make PSA's like this anymore.

That omnipresent voice is Donald Pleasance.

"Dwindling Docket Mystifies Supreme Court"

Does it really surprise anyone that those who once looked to this court for justice now choose to wait for a less political forum. This group obviously is/are severely slanted and can be relied on only to select presidents. Good grief, is everyone mad? Are they stupid in addition to biased?

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Beautiful rendition of "Peace" (a theme)

gMail strikes again

Check what Google tried to sell me after Mama's comment about the homos.

koALee Contributes, Rates "Love" (pseudo-beatles meet Percy faith)

Okay, I admit it,I was flim-flammed. The description sounded sooo good. And I am sooo disappointed. Sounds like an imitation of the beatles played by Percy Faith and his strings on Qualude and found on Easy Listening on Sunday afternoon in Peachtree City or any Del Webb development. Dammit. And I paid good $ for this, although I got free shipping--beware websites bearing gifts, I says. Anyone want the new "Love" album? Free?

A risk I'm willing to take

Have we lost the ability to contribute on our own, other than to comment on articles and videos, or put a line in the Chatterbox? I don't care.

This right here is funny, I don't care who ya are...

Effin' short version of Pulp Fiction

Safe for neither work nor children. Because Lebowski needed some company. Click the link if the embedded vid ain't there.

Aunt Margie and cousin Preston Invited To Xmas

I talked a long time to Preston today and invited him and his mother to Xmas with us. He is coming over tomorrow to watch the Colts with Pert. He is alone now. Okay by you all, I hope.

There will be dire consequences to your sinful ways

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Disgorged Matter?

On our way out of town, within seconds of driving away from Echo (ECHO?), we noticed an odor quite similar to the one that hovered in the kitchen that one day. At first we believed that, oh no, it had been one of us all along--my God, we brought a vomitty smell with us! Then, after the odor dissipated (as if it had been lingering in the air around the car, had been sucked into the circulation system, and then had blown away once we left the area), we concluded that Gock must have been correct: icky, scary bile gas of some unusual sort floats around Fletcher Place!

Three video links, because I'm in a giving mood

Number 2

There are no words...

Schadenfreude

Bus 1, Hummer 0
Indy School Bus Drivers represent!

Had a great holiday weekend

Thanks for everything, everybody. I was pretty much the poster child for this:



























It was fuckin' great.

Something To File Away For A Much Later Date

Never too early to start on that underground bunker you always dreamed of building.

Current Happiness Quotient at ECHO

Linky

Will somebody tell me how to put a clickable link in the title? or show me at thksgvg.
Everything is cool here. Yesterday a retiree dinner. Mostly, lots of stuff to do every day in and on the house. And no end in sight. I'm lovin' it. G & GT here on weekends a lot, work on house moving along, new washer, new cable internet connection, mostly lots of distractions daily and upstairs will be there later. Got video from Agatha. Thanks. Looking forward with happy anticipation to the rest.

That's My Line

What a great find. Our favorite ownage in TV history.

The Magnificient Six?

I find it particularly annoying that reports and graphics almost always list the current Independents as Democrats. Aren't they, in fact, not alligned with any party?

With Independent Bernie Sanders taking over Jim Jeffords Senate seat, and Gleeber Man defeating his former fellow Democrat Lamont--and assuming the Dems are miraculously awarded Virginia and Montana--they'll still hold no majority. Technically that honor stays with the GOP by a Chewney tie-break at 49-49. Granted, Sanders, a reported Socialist, would vote with the Democrats as Jeffords did, but contrary to what the pundits say, Gleeber Man is not to be counted on.

What does this do to chairmanships and the like is what I wunner bout?

Hey, Ortega is back in business! Sandinista Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional!