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I'm thinking some of you good ole boys might just like this here thing here! I know I do. http://dropandcatch.com/ I'm thinking about ordering the Amber Ale with 60 pounds of pull force. Don't know if I'm manly enough (wallet-wise) to swing the 100 pounds of pull force model.

Yup, he's good people. Wish he checked in here every now and then but I haven't seen him post in ages.

Scary moment, indeed, Ric. Nice of you to be able to see that perhaps his life isn't so great. You're a compassionate man. But the main thing is that Esme wasn't harmed! Incidentally, I need to figure out where that e key with the tilde is, in her honor. Such a great name.

Happy birthday, Jason!

Made my first Santa appearance tonight, a tree lighting ceremony at Camana Bay, which is a large and quite nice outdoor shopping "mini city" and cultural center. The crowd was estimated at 3,000. They were expecting 4,000+ but there was some light rain. It's good to be back at it, just as fun and wonderful in every way as ever. My schedule is getting quite full again this year. I'll probably end up doing 70-80 events. Last year was 66, if I remember correctly, and there is all sorts of new stuff on my schedule already. One lady was so anxious to book me on a Saturday this year, that she was willing to pay me to ride along with me from one event to another so that her kids can get some private time with Santa! Ok, whatever. It's your money, lady! We've worked out a good story for explaining why I'm traveling in a convertible instead of by sleigh. Rudolph and a couple of the other reindeer took off on a joy ride in the sleigh, so we're going to have to drive around looking up in the sky trying to find them. Meanwhile, they'll get to sift through the toy bag and candy bag and pick out what they like, and then will get to serve as honorary elves at the next event. It will be a surprise to the kids. We have it arranged whereby as I'm leaving from the first event (where her kids know that they're coming to see me at), I'll drive past her outside the parking lot as she's getting ready to leave the event, and then invite the whole family into my car to help me find the reindeer. Once we arrive at the next event, I'll say, "Oh, there are a lot of children here. Maybe they can help us too!" Then off we go to start event #2. I told her that it would probably be best if they only helped me for about 15 minutes or so, and then they could magically bump into her sister who can give them a ride back to their car. The kids won't know what hit them, and she insists on paying my standard fee for a 1 hour home visit, which ain't cheap these days...

This is absolutely freaking brilliant! http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/21/chris-farley-rob-ford-movie_n_4319144.html?just_reloaded=1

Eww... got me! You have follow the rainbow and read the signs.

Were you interested in the girls or the bears?

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1861578-worst-golf-store-commercial-ever-created-is-actually-quite-brilliant?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=programming-national

I'm enjoying the increased frequency of tits in this thread. I like tits.

Happy birthday, Alex!

Great domain name. He's got enough to eat at home! http://enoughtoeat.com/

Happy birthday, John!

Sorry that I missed seeing Gary and Dom as well. Oh well, another time... My eye has cleared up for the most part now, so I'm a happy camper again.

It was good seeing everyone again. I'm a no show today for sure. Got an eye infection that started last night and has been a real bitch today, which has made me a bit cranky but the drops seems to be helping a little.

Really lovely 17 minute NPR piece on Gary Burton (who I had never heard of before). The guitarist is quite good as well. http://www.npr.org/event/music/243938351/gary-burton-tiny-desk-concert?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook

Yes, and the rug matches the drapes as well as the wood trim on the speakers...

Is that a Maggie she's hugging? They're definitely lovable!

Just click on it to increase the size. I use postimage.com for posting here, prolly because I'm too much of a dunce to figure out how to do it in a better way.

This kid is pretty good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOZ54iqzQgA&feature=player_embedded

This is kind of interesting, other than the filming discontinuity (sends down red bike, machine grabs white bike to send up, red bike comes back out). http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=pcZSU40RBrg

Just listened to the soundtrack of the Coen brothers upcoming film, "Inside Lyewyn Davis." Tought it was pretty good, "...parts of it anyway" (to steal a line from 'the stranger' in The Big Lebowski). http://www.npr.org/2013/11/03/242103173/first-listen-soundtrack-inside-llewyn-davis?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook