Tag: Christmas Gifts

On the Way

Harry is on his way home, I think. I have it on good authority (iOS Find My app) that he’s on route 89 heading South. I think he’s coming straight here, but I don’t know that for sure. This makes me happy. Very happy.

One of our christmas presents was ordered online and set to deliver to the recipient’s address. It wasn’t supposed to ship until next week, but it was delivered today. It’s like the theme from Facts of Life. You take the good, you take the bad, yadda yadda yadda. HoHoHo. The gift giving bonanza is officially underway.

Want to know something that I hate? I hate when I go to Google News, find an article worth reading, open the article, and find it’s behind a paywall. Can’t Google filter that shit out? Do they already do it and I just haven’t turned it on yet? I don’t know. I hate it. Either way.

Pink Floyd just surprise released a shit load of live albums today. They are all from 1970-72. Almost all of them are from 1971. Back in my bootleg hunting days, I went through a major Pink Floyd bootleg obsession. I have heard most of the shows they released today. I was hoping they were going to magically have high quality, multi-track recordings of those shows but they didn’t. They basically just released the same bootlegs I listened to years ago. I tried listening during work, but the bad sound quality stopped me. Don’t get me wrong, I am going to listen to every note that came out today 100 times each. I am not complaining about the sound quality. My favorite bootlegs are all from 1970, but the 1971 shows were magic too. Echoes! They were still improvising then. Not as much as they did in the beginning, but it was still a big deal. I am going to listen to all of this stuff in headphones and get as much inside of it as I can. Oh, and there’s a partial show from ’72 that has most of a pre-release Dark Side of the Moon. The song titles match the studio versions, but does the music? Might there be a Preacher in there? Might there be a jamming version of On the Run? (please?please?please?)

Okay, enough of my yakkin’. Back to work. When Harry gets here and the work day is over, we’re doing Marvel and Burgers night, just like we did before he went off to college. Awwww.

Christmas Pickle

What to do??

I want to get my wife one more gift for Christmas but I haven’t a clue what to get her. It’s a quandary, a conundrum, a pickle, a riddle wrapped in an enigma, stop me before I push this run on sentence any further.

What to get her? She’s already got a computer so that’s out. I am starting to stress out! Maybe a stress relief toy thingie. No, I get her that every year!

If only I could fit a new Tesla into her stocking. None of that self driving car crap for us though. As the Muppets once said, getting there is half the fun. (They said that, didn’t they? In “Moving Right Along” from the first Muppet movie?)

Google Chrome’s spell check is okay with Muppet, but it’s not okay with Muppets. I guess there can be only one after all. Is Kermit the Frog Scottish? He doesn’t sound Scottish, but then again the guy who played the Highlander was French so who knows what to believe, am I right?

I am so confused.