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Nice, pleasant Sunday here.

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Happy Sunday,BRENDA.

Oh BTW, I had to look up the Paul McCartney song too. Then, when it didn't ring any bells I played a little bit.

Im sure I've never ever heard it in my life. From what I heard, I'm glad for that!

But unlike you and SIX, I actually like (most) Xmas songs. They bring up so many happy memories. When we were little, mom and dad actually put up the Xmas tree when we were alseep. It was a wonder to sneak out in the early AM with my sisters and find the tree, all decorated with gifts underneath, and turn on the tree lights and try and find which presents were for who and guess what they might be without opening them. To this day I remember us getting a giant greenish flop-eared stuffed dog with a tag on it: "My name is Jupiter. Please love me"

And we did. We used to worry that he couldn't sleep bc his eyes were open all the time, so every night we put him to bed by covering his eyes with his ears.

And then there were the carols, in Polish and English. When we were old enough to stay up, midnight mass. The moon high in the sky, shining thru bare tree limbs and making the snow shine. The little baby Jesus in the manger and the star on top of the tree. The parties. Making cookies with mom. Taking our late evening stroll with dad, Christmas lights glowing thru the snow. It was a kind, magical season, where people cared enough to put up lights and make the neighborhood beautiful for others... not the big ostentatious 50,000 bulb displays that you have to pay someone for, just what people put up by themselves.

That kind of Christmas should be in every child's memories. Not the shopping horror that it is now.


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HOW HAVE BOTH OF YOU NEVER HEARD THAT SONG!!!!!!

Oh my god. I think I've heard Wonderful Christmas Time more than I've heard Stairway to Heaven.



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HOW HAVE BOTH OF YOU NEVER HEARD THAT SONG!!!!!!

Oh my god. I think I've heard Wonderful Christmas Time more than I've heard Stairway to Heaven.



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Back from work at around 4:30pm. Just tired now.

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Back from work at around 4:30pm. Just tired now.

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I hope you sleep well tonight, then.

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Back from work at around 4:30pm. Just tired now.

SIGNY:I hope you sleep well tonight, then.

BRENDA: Didn't sleep too bad. But everything from yesterday I am now doing today(Tuesday).

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Back from work at around 4:30pm. Just tired now.

SIGNY:I hope you sleep well tonight, then.

BRENDA: Didn't sleep too bad. But everything from yesterday I am now doing today(Tuesday).

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When you posted that your boss had called you in to work, my first thought was that she was getting ready for T-day.
But you've already had your T-day!
Any rhyme or reason to your work schedule?

Nothing irks me as much as random demands on my time. I don't mind doing for others, but I sure would like to know a week ahead of time!

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HOW HAVE BOTH OF YOU NEVER HEARD THAT SONG!!!!!!

Oh my god. I think I've heard Wonderful Christmas Time more than I've heard Stairway to Heaven.



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Hahaha!! I don't know, but I'm glad it hasn't been driiled into my head, yet!

When was it aired??

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Three months or so after I was born, so it's a thing that's been a thing all of my life.

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I generally DON'T listen to music. I knew people at work, it was their passion. They went to Coachella every year and it was like a competition almost to find the newest most under- appreciated group/singer before anyone else did.

I think the only time I listen is when somebody brings something tomy attention. I heard "some of us" on Bones and "Hallelujah" in Shrek. When I was reviewing data somebody brought me a thumb drive of compiled videogame music, so that started me on PrimeCronus. Or I would hear something that somebody was playing at work that was interesting. One of the posters here (I forget who) put me on to Two Cellos, and that popped up the Pentatonix. And if course there's Favorite Songs that exposes me to music I might not have heard otherwise. I bunny trailed my way to the call to prayer (it's quite beautiful), church bells, and other liturgical music.

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I posted a LOT of Pentatonix back during my drinking days. I was never into their Christmas stuff, which came after they got YouTube famous, but just because I'm not into Christmas music at all. I still jam out to Pentatonix on my mp3 player.

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But mostly, I don't listen. Lots of music passes me by. I actually listen to geopolitical podcasts when I'm working in the kitchen, it keeps me from getting bored but it's what I call "bubblegum for the mind"- I chew on it while it's there but when it's gone, it's gone.

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You should probably consider yourself lucky you never worked in retail. Though I'll admit there's a lot of great songs I've heard over the years that I still listen to today while working jobs that I never would have heard otherwise, there are ten times as many bad songs that I've heard far more than I ever would have otherwise too. Particularly Christmas songs. With McCartney's being number one on my shit list and Barbra Streisand's rendition of Jingle Bells being a VERY close second. In fact, Streisand's song would probably be my pick for the worst song of any genre ever made, but the only reason I hate McCartney's song more is because I don't hear Streisand's horror that often. It's the metaphorical equivalent to DePape hitting Paul in the head with a hammer.

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I should probably find a more productive use fro my ears. Stock picks, or something.

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I often think that myself. But I enjoy music. I couldn't even tell you the amount of songs that I know every single lyric to, because ever since I was a little kid I would memorize songs and it's just natural to me today. I never found a way to turn that skill into money, but it did help make me an excellent karaoke performer and got me a ton of free drinks back in the day.



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HOW HAVE BOTH OF YOU NEVER HEARD THAT SONG!!!!!!

Oh my god. I think I've heard Wonderful Christmas Time more than I've heard Stairway to Heaven.



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I love music but Christmas music isn't my thing. I've cassette tapes, CDs and LPs and the only thing remotely Christmassy among all of that is Bob and Doug McKenzie from SCTV. Oh, and my Doug and the Slugs CD has "White Christmas" on it. I have no idea why they put that on the "Slugology 101" CD but its there.

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So SIX, how's the weather? Not too bad, I hope?

I can't believe you set your thermostat to 55F!

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HOW HAVE BOTH OF YOU NEVER HEARD THAT SONG!!!!!!

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I love music but Christmas music isn't my thing. I've cassette tapes, CDs and LPs and the only thing remotely Christmassy among all of that is Bob and Doug McKenzie from SCTV. Oh, and my Doug and the Slugs CD has "White Christmas" on it. I have no idea why they put that on the "Slugology 101" CD but its there.

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Still no car here. Not that I care to go out at all in this weather anyhow. I've also got food for a year and toiletries for 5 years, so nowhere in particular I need to be going at the moment anyhow.

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Still no car here. Not that I care to go out at all in this weather anyhow. I've also got food for a year and toiletries for 5 years, so nowhere in particular I need to be going at the moment anyhow.

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Sis is expecting 2-4' of lake effect snow. Snow B4 T-day is pretty rare,and this amount is almost unheard of.

Except the last time it happened. Still remembered as Snowvember. You should look at some of the pix. https://www.wivb.com/weather/snowvember/

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Keeping busy working on my old project. It's a nice distraction from the mundane, and certainly a better use of my time than playing video games or watching youtube all day.

Going to have to take advantage of a few days next week where it hits the mid-40's though. I don't want a repeat of last winter where I didn't get any work done on the house until April after the first snow fell.

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I didn't hardly get any yardwork done all summer, except for watering and some weed whacking.

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You've been sick and you have a few years on me. Don't beat yourself up.

And "winter" by you really isn't winter anyhow, so you've still got time.

I sure ain't better than you. This year saw some amazing progress for sure, but half of the work I've been doing is repairs from damage that I allowed to happen to my property from years of neglect while drinking, and I know full well that my neighbors all probably hated me back in the days when my property was being overrun by nature. This year at least I was able to do more than just play keep-up and I finally made some huge moves toward actually finishing this house.

Making up for lost time now while I'm still young and healthy and can handle it. I'm not super worried about the clock yet, but I've got to get this property ready to sell the next time the market is good. There's no way I'm going to die in this house. I want a small house with a flat roof that is on high land. The exact opposite of what I've got right now.



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I'm not familiar with that one, Brenda. I'll have to look it up.

Still got Mr. Blue Sky from ELO jammed into my head. It's been like a full week now.

I showed it to my dad and he loves it, but I warned him not to listen to it too much.




Freakin' cold here. 19 degrees. You keeping warm?

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First Images Reveal Snowmageddon's Aftermath Across Buffalo

People across Buffalo, New York, and the surrounding metro areas are waking up Saturday morning to snowmageddon that dumped between 5-6 feet of snow over the last few days. ..



https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fh7kLRNXgAAkXtG?format=jpg&name=small


https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/first-images-reveal-snowmageddons-af
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First Images Reveal Snowmageddon's Aftermath Across Buffalo

People across Buffalo, New York, and the surrounding metro areas are waking up Saturday morning to snowmageddon that dumped between 5-6 feet of snow over the last few days. ..



https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fh7kLRNXgAAkXtG?format=jpg&name=small


https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/first-images-reveal-snowmageddons-af
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SIX, took a listen to "Mr. Blue Sky" by ELO and I'm glad that I've never come across it before. I've heard Beatles songs along the same lines and I'd rather listen to the Beatles to tell the truth.

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SIX, took a listen to "Mr. Blue Sky" by ELO and I'm glad that I've never come across it before. I've heard Beatles songs along the same lines and I'd rather listen to the Beatles to tell the truth.

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Yeah. I don't know why, but I really like that song. I can't remember if I mentioned it here, but when I first heard it I thought it was a Beatles song too. My old man wrote me back about a week after I'd sent it to him and he told me that he knew some other ELO songs and liked them but never heard this one and now it was his favorite ELO. He also mentioned how it sounded like the Beatles, I believe he said during their Sgt. Pepper era.

I don't know why I like it so much. It's usually not my thing at all. I'm a Beatles fan myself, but I like their "weird" stuff like Strawberry Fields Forever and The Walrus way more than their earlier "happy" stuff.

It should be said that "Mr. Blue Sky" was recently rated as the "Happiest Song In the World", and it was based on Science.

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https://www.magic.co.nz/home/music/2020/05/electric-light-orchestra-de
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They've got a top 10 list too...

‘Mr Blue Sky’ - Electric Light Orchestra

‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ - Queen

‘Good Vibrations’ - the Beach Boys

‘The Riddle’ - Nik Kershaw

‘I’m a Believer’ - the Monkees

‘I’ll Be There for You’ - the Rembrandts

‘Pamela’ - Toto

‘Mambo No. 5’ - Lou Bega

‘Our House’ - Madness

‘Wake Me Up Before You Go Go’ - Wham



I can't argue with Our House. I've loved that one since I was a little kid and first started listening to the radio. Wham's song is a guilty pleasure of mine too.

I never cared much for "I'll Be There For You", but I'll bet in a parallel dimension where they didn't use that as the theme song for Friends that the show wouldn't have been the mega-hit that streaming services still pay hundreds of millions of dollars to secure the exclusive streaming rights to this day.

I wonder if the Cheers theme song made its way on there. Hard for me to come up with a better theme song than that on the fly, IMO.

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it's been very dry here after the last rain. I have to water again, and the dry air is giving my sinuses a beating.

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