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I know what it means to be alone I sure do wish I was at home I don't care what the neighbors say I'm gonna love you Each and every day

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/arts/television/tom-smothers-dead.html I love the way he did this interview:

After the fire The fire still burns The heart grows older But never ever learns

Looks like he really earned this:

Anything you want, you got it Anything you need, you got it Anything at all, you got it, baby

Rolled in from another town Hit some gold, too hot to settle down But a fool and his money soon go separate ways You found a fool lyin' in a daze

I was responsible for the learning management system at the college where I taught. (This was in the early days of online and web-enhanced instruction.) I'd done all the BIOS and Windows NT Y2K updates, so I wasn't too worried about it. At 12:01, my wife asked if I was going to dial in and check on the server. I said, "It can wait until tomorrow." The next morning, everything was fine. We didn't go hog wild on the doomsday prep, but we did make sure to stock up on some essentials ahead of time. I figured that out in high school too, but that was about twenty years before Y2K.

It could be a spoonful of diamond It could be a spoonful of gold Just a little spoon of your precious love Satisfy my soul

^ On a related note, a defibrillator.

I've only watched a couple of live games on NFL+ this season and, for the most part, they've been okay other than this one. I watch on my tablet, which, sitting on my lap, is about the same apparent size as my 42" TV across the room. But it's also nice for watching replays of games that I missed, whether watching the whole thing or the condensed version. I can watch those on a regular TV with a Firestick and the NFL+ app.

Buon Natale, amici miei!

Yeah, technically he did grab the defender's jersey, but as you said, they all do that. But he had his hands in front, not around the shoulders or back, so it shouldn't have been called. And that negated a huge play. People say we won the KC game because of a fluky penalty, but they think that the only game-changing calls happen near the end of the game. A bad call early in the game can be a game-changer too. Case in point: flagging Josh for intentional grounding when there should have been a flag against the Eagles' defender for the horse collar tackle. Call that one correctly and The Bills may have put up 7 instead of 3. We lost that game by 3 points.

The Bills gave me an early birthday present by beating the Bucs. It was close, but they got it done. The Bills gave me an early Christmas present by beating the Chargers. It was close, but they got it done. The Bills gave me an early heart disorder by having so many friggin' nailbiters.

So don't delay, act now, supplies are running out Allow, if you're still alive, six to eight years to arrive And if you follow, there may be a tomorrow But if the offer's shunned You might as well be walkin' on the sun

I watched it thru NFL+ and the stream was horrible. Nearly the entire game was about five seconds of action followed by a one-second freeze-up. After a while, they'd catch up by skipping an entire play. And then, in the fourth quarter, it just stopped and left a "Subscribe" button. So I had to log back in again to see the end of the game.

We saw it this spring while driving to the southwest. No need to look back and confirm - there's another one a few miles down the road. And another. And another...

We're doing lasagna and eggplant parm for Christmas Day. I'll be making the sauce (sugo) today, so tonight we'll have Italian sausage sandwiches topped with suco.

She had sweethearts aplenty, and men of high degree But none but Jack the sailor, her true love there could be Oh, her true love there could be

Jennie said when she was just 'bout five years old You know, my parents gonna be the death of us all Two TV sets and two Cadillac cars Well you know, it ain't gonna help me at all

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They should never be called "Buffalo Wings." It's just "Wings."