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On the 3rd day of Christmas A Christmas Carol for Me

Posted: December 27, 2008 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Woke up on the couch on the 3rd day of Christmas finding myself watching the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen.

It is not the best version of the story, Alistair Sim holds that honor helped by first rate writing.

There was an animated version I watched every year as a kid that was pretty good.

The George C. Scott version should be watched at least once as he makes a really first rate Scrooge (Dr. Who fans will recognize Mark Strickson as young Scrooge)

My wife prefers A Muppet Christmas Carol with Michael Caine

and also Scrooged although we haven’t seen it on TV this year.

My Friend Vinnie from Georgia sent us Rich Little’s Christmas Carol which I haven’t seen in 20 or 30 years as a gift

The Musical version with Albert Finney is just wonderful but I haven’t seen that on the TV either this year

and who can forget Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol made the year before I was born

According to IMDB there have been as of today 71 versions made or in production starting in 1910 the latest being an animated version due out next year staring Jim Carey in the title role and all of the Ghosts too!

It is the classic story that always brings Christmas into my heart, but for some reason Owen always brings the largest smile maybe because it was I knew the most as a child, or maybe because I loved the Lockhearts as the Cratchits or maybe I just love the old Shillings and Pence and all the sliding.

You will read a lot of hemming and hawing on this site concerning politics, religion, my current unemployment and the RedSox but like Ebenezer Scrooge at the end I’ll try to keep Christmas all throughout the year. Life is very good and we all have more to be thankful for than we realize. Keep that in mind you can always produce a smile.

So on this 3rd day of Christmas, God bless us every one!

Well that was anti-climatic

Posted: December 26, 2008 by datechguy in local stuff
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Well Christmas turned out to be rather odd.

We spent most of the morning preparing for our guests. As we didn’t have the ovens we swung over my mothers and used a couple of hers (she has 4).

Since we had so much to do I left the two hams cooking in two ovens, one upstairs and one in the cellar while my son took her to church and I rushed home to continue the preparation.

Unfortunately my brother showed up at the house and went in and finding both ovens on assumed my mother forgot them and shut them off.

Discovering his mistake later he turned them on but the downstairs oven was on a clock so when he finally turned it back on it still turned itself off before it was done.

That wasn’t so bad since our guests were running late so we had time to finish it, however they were delayed again and again till finally we fell asleep on the sofa and recliner waiting for them. Due to new power outages here and in surrounding towns they never made it. Kind of a letdown.

So the house is pretty clean and ready for our annual open house on the 3rd, and our beer supply is now rather large, but we have several leftover hams and food for four times our number in the fridge waiting to be warmed.

The wife was and is very disappointed but I figure those guys far away from home looking for a hot meal and a cold beer were more so. And hey there are twelve days to Christmas the dining room table is still set and sooner or later those guys gotta eat, so we’ll see.

Merry Christmas to all

Posted: December 25, 2008 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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It is Christmas day. The first of the 12 days of Christmas.

This is the calm before the storm. The gifts are opened. (I got exactly what I wanted, this, this this and this) Breakfast is done and the family is calm and full.

But in 4 hours the house will be full, and in a very few minutes panic mode will set in and the preparation of the house will begin.

So today as I likely don’t post for many hours if at all, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

And if you don’t celebrate Christmas, then as always, have a nice day.

Life is full of surprises

Posted: December 24, 2008 by datechguy in local stuff
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Tell me have you ever had a phone call from your wife out of the blue stating that the house has to be organized because 16 total strangers from thousands of miles away are coming for Christmas Dinner when you were only going to have the 4 of your family before?

Until 30 minutes ago neither had I.

Blogging will be non-existent for the rest of the day.

Merry Christmas to all, and please excuse me I have some cleaning to do.

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