Happy B'day William F. Orr!
Chocolate Donuts?!! I don't remember Chocolate Donuts at any previous Xmas Eve partay! You're just doing this to punish me, aren't you, BK?
And yes, I deliberately wrote Xmas! And left "Christ" out of Christmas! Oh, horrors! I'm so tired of this furor about what stores or anyone else says or does not say over the Christmas season. Who the Hell cares? Happy Holidays; Merry Christmas; Season's Greetings; Happy Chanuka; Lovely Kwanzaa; Terrific Winter Solistice! I mean any of them are people wishing other people well over this festive time of the year. There isn't any malice in any of those greetings. Get over it, people! I think the people who feel threatened or angered by this sort of thing have a serious crisis of faith. Those who are secure in their spiritual faith and religious beliefs cannot have them undermined by the mere words well-wishers use. It's so ridiculous.
And by the by, Xmas does not leave Christ out of Christmas. X is "chi" in Greek which is the first part of Christ...it was used, I believe, by early Christians as a code for Him.
The unpacking continues. The more boxes we remove from our new hardwood floors the more scuffs and scratches we find left by the movers. Someone is going to pay. These people really screwed up.
I've spent the last few days working on my media closet, which is right off the media room and will hold all my tapes,DVDs, film reference books, CDs, and records. It's already getting tight. I don't think all the books will fit. I am currently boxing records for which I have CDs or those I haven't listened to in forty years and know I'm not going to...many are curiosities but I'm just not going to be listening to records with clips from W.C. Fields movies or The Marx Bros. movies. Dvds have made that sort of thing a tad obsolete. (These records are narrated by BK buddy, Gary Owens.)
Well, after two trips to the Wal-mart...mostly out of curiosity...The Lovely Wife and I are done. We're not that impressed and we just feel sleazy shopping there. Regards their workers...most of whom I've found rather slow and often a bit dim (I especially like ancient "greeter" who never greets...right after the clerks who can't identify fruit and are utterly baffled when they can't find it on their chart)...you get the kind of help you pay for.