Mon. Dec. 23, 2024 – stuff to do, but do I have the time?

By on December 23rd, 2024 in culture, decline and fall

Cool and damp, followed by more damp, possibly even wet. It stayed fairly cool yesterday, but didn’t rain. Today’s forecast has us in the “possible” area for storms and rain. I’m hoping for ‘ not raining.’

Didn’t do much beyond auctions (gotta get those last few in before the end of the year, Texas charges tax on inventory.) I’ll probably do my pickup today for the stuff I won.

We did finally get the tree decorated, and some additional decoration done in the house. Christmas cards are clipped to a string to display them, and there has been an outbreak of gnomes in festive holiday gear…

And of course we watched the holiday classic, Die Hard.

These are the good old days. Stack some memories too.

nick

4 Comments and discussion on "Mon. Dec. 23, 2024 – stuff to do, but do I have the time?"

  1. MrAtoz says:

    Die Hard first post!

  2. Greg Norton says:

    Kid1 has watched Shaun of the Dead with me.   

    Nothing in “Anna and the Apocalypse” will be a shock beyond how much effort the creative people put into making the musical numbers work far better than they should.

    The other two films of the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, “Hot Fuzz” and “The World’s End” should be on the priority list, but they are not “Christmas” movies.

    Well, unless you view “Roadhouse” as a Christmas classic as I do.

  3. Ray Thompson says:

    @Ken: Here is the link to order the report.

    https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request

    I had the name wrong because autocorrect corrected lexis to Lexus (the car). You are allowed to get one report per year.

  4. brad says:

    What a pile of snow. It’s hard to say how much, but at least 50cm, maybe 70cm. It’s hard to tell, because it’s windy, so as soon as you shovel (or snowblow) a patch, the wind fills it back in – not even counting the snow that is still falling heavily.

    I’ve cleared the lower part of our driveway, and shoveled around the house, 2-3 times this morning. This afternoon, I’ll do it again, another couple of times. The snow should be tapering off this evening, so I can do the final “digging out” tomorrow.

    For the Eco Power+ snowblower, the weird battery has started behaving normally again. So that’s good. I’d like to get a second pair of batteries, but… They are literally half the price in the US as they are here, but (of course) they refuse to ship them from the US. It’s $800 for a pair in the US, about $1200 in Germany, and around $1600 here in Switzerland. That’s just annoying price gouging.

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