My father is carving the bird and the ridiculous mountainous Thanksgiving feast is ready to be devoured.

Happy Thanksgiving to All.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Help me test out my Opera Unite Lounge app.

You should be able to click the link, chose a user name, and chat with me. I won’t be there long, but check it out if you want.

Thanks

The sky is a very hazy, gray color. It’s been drizzling all day. The sun doesn’t set for about half an hour but it’s already close to dark as night.

It’s also the busiest travel day of the year.

A co-worker who left the office a little before 2:00pm called in to say that route 30 in Framingham is already a parking lot. I would say that route 9 is too, but route 9 is a disaster on the best of days.

The most commonly heard phrase on the traffic reports is, “Seek alternate route.” I do that every day anyway, but even I -oh traveler of the back road less traveled- can expect some big delays today.

This is the down side of Thanksgiving. It’ll be all right once we all get where we are going. When that happens we can celebrate one of the United State’s best holidays. Until then, however… traffic stress.

Tomorrow we should all give thanks that we managed to avoid the psychotic road rage of the average motoring psycho.

Happy Evening Before Thanksgiving everyone!

A hazy moon over Methuen.

Opera Unite… does anyone actually use this?

Jen’s new company blocks all of the instant message and web chat functions that we know about. Yesterday I read a report about the release of Opera 10.10 and remembered that Opera Unite has a chat room application. I had set that up a while ago and then never used it. I wondered if that might be useful to the Mrs and I.

I ran the service, sent her a url, and sure enough it was blocked.

I also set up the web server in the hopes that I can use it in place of the now defunct geocities for posting our family Christmas lists. I got that running too. The other cool looking thing is the media server. It would be nice to store my music on my desktop (I already do) and stream it to my computer at work. I got that running again as well.

This morning before leaving I made sure the services were running. When I got to work I went to the appropriate urls… and none of the services are running.

Damn it.

I don’t know of anyone else using this. Do you? I was going to post a link to the chat room and then watch with rapt attention as no one logged into it. Stuff like that fascinates me.

***Change of Subject***

Christmas is one month away. Not that any of us could have missed it what with a couple of Boston area radio stations having switched to all Christmas music formats weeks ago, and every store in the world (not literally, it just seems that way) running massive Pre-Thanksgiving Christmas shopping advertising campaigns.

I hate that. Thanksgiving is a great holiday and we belittle it in the name of Christmas induced commerce. If you believe the adverts we have nothing at all to be thankful for beyond the chance to get screwed over by a huge retail chain giving false promises of unreal black Friday savings. It really is shameful.

Don’t blow off Thanksgiving folks. Enjoy it. Once it’s over you can start worrying about Christmas. Don’t ruin a good thing.

Youtube celebrated the release of their 1080p functionality today by releasing the above video. The Muppets doing Bohemian Rhapsody. By far the greatest video ever.

The Bruins have won three games in a row for the first time this season. They currently sit in sixth place in the East. Marc Savard is back. Can you hear that? That’s a million Bruins fans breathing a sigh of relief.

Last night against St Louis the second worst power play in hockey scored two power play goals and threw in a short handed goal for good measure. Patrice Bergeron is playing like… well… Patrice Bergeron. He set up all four Bruins goals last night. It was beautiful.

>sigh of relief<

Meanwhile, we are down to the last two days before Thanksgiving. We are hosting both my and Jen’s parents this year and we get to have to kids too. It’s going to be a great time. The preparations have begun as last night I made a dessert that will undoubtedly give everyone food poisoning. It’s not much, but the first food has been cooked!

We watched a show on National Geographic last night that basically rebroadcast all of the major moments in the Kennedy Assassination. All of the footage came from the Dallas local networks. The name of the program was something like The Lost Footage or something like that.

There was exactly one moment that really stood out for me. Just after Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald a television reporter who was right there when it happened gave a report back to the studio. This was after enough time had gone by that he was able to give the identity of the shooter. I don’t remember the exact quote, but it was something along the lines of the shooter’s name is Jack Ruby and there isn’t a single police officer in the building who thinks Ruby acted out of patriotic fervor. They think he was trying to silence Oswald.

This was two days after the President had been shot, and already there were people in both law enforcement and the press who were talking openly about conspiracy. I never knew that kind of talk started so soon after the assassination.

Right after the Kennedy program ended, a show about Abraham Lincoln began. More proof of a connection between the two late Presidents? Could be!

I never thought I would live to see this. Granted, it’s only 25% of the way into the season and there is still more than enough time for things to get back to normal, but…

The Lowell Devils are in first place?

>Robert faints…<