Tag: Christmas
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Christmas Cynicism
If you’ve spent much time with me online you know that I have grave and growing concerns about Christianity. Today I watched A Muppet Christmas Carol. Near the end Scrooge wipes the snow off his own gravestone to reveal his name. He begs the ghost of Christmas future that it will not be so. But…
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Christmas Snow
We got our first real snow of the winter and just in time for Christmas. I don’t know if it’ll last five days but what we got has stuck so far. Of course that means I had to shovel. It wasn’t very thick but it seemed like someone rode over the unshovelled sidewalk on a…
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Desk Lamp
Stephanie and I took the boys to Target for Christmas. I got a desk lamp and have effectively lit my keyboard.
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Black Friday 24
The next commercial holiday in the USA is Christmas. The annual buying spree begins with Black Friday. People trample each other for sales on new stuff the day after claiming to be grateful for the stuff they already have. There’s a method to the marketing though. It is in the best interest of retail to…
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Traditions, What are those?
What traditions have you not kept that your parents had? We had a lot of traditions as a family when I was growing up. For instance on Christmas Eve my father led a midnight mass. We would stay up late for the service. When it was done we went home and opened presents. To this…
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Binge Watching
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times? I have watched numerous movies at least five times. When I was living on Dodge Street I bought a VCR and four tapes from the pawn shop on the corner. They were Batman, Beetlejuice, Beaches, and Bird on a Wire. They were my…
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Lost Tradition
Write about a few of your favorite family traditions. I have four sons. The first was born out of wedlock and was mostly raised by his mother. If her family has traditions I have not noticed them. My wife and I have three sons on the autism spectrum. Between the three of them there has…
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2:18pm 25 December 2023
On this date and time I clocked out of Walgreens for the very last time in my life. There are a lot of people I will miss working with. What I will not miss is the corporation. If anyone would like to hear me complain about Walgreens in private you can message me. But they…
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Christmas is Coming
“Christmas is coming.The goose is getting fat.Please to put a pennyIn the old man’s hat.If you have no pennyA ha-penny will do.If you have no ha-pennyThen God bless you.”
Latter Day Sinner 