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Post by vitugglan on Dec 24, 2020 12:34:59 GMT -5
Happy Solstice! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Merry Kwanzaa! However you celebrate, I hope your best wishes for the season come true.
We had a pre-Christmas dinner at the last-born's. Second-born and her family came. Got presents for the kids after consultation with the adults and the presents were all a big hit. That's the point - not to duplicate but to get the kid what that kid wants. Glad to hear they all loved their gifts. Good food, good company, and a rousing game of Cards Against Humanity. Now for a quiet Christmas at home.
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Post by spaniardx on Dec 25, 2020 7:07:35 GMT -5
We'll be having ours later today. Basically a quiet meal with the spawns, spawnette, spawn-in-love (her SO) and the grandspawn. Haven't seen him since February. We didn't do our Christmas last year because hubby wasn't feeling up to doing his usual "Felix Unger" and the meal so we haven't been together since Thanksgiving '19.
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Post by vitugglan on Dec 25, 2020 13:27:32 GMT -5
Too long. I don't care for these shut-downs. I know that's not the only reason, but it's a big part of people nowadays not seeing relatives on any occasion. I hope you have a good holiday with family!
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Post by spaniardx on Dec 25, 2020 22:39:24 GMT -5
We did. Spawnette got me a book this year, JK Rowling's The Ickabog. Last year she dropped off a sound/motion activated Headwig and an R2. Headwig is sitting in the cabinet above the computer right now. Closet kitties were not at all impressed with her when I brought her out and hit the switch. Did not even do that teleporting flinch. As for R2, he's in hiding somewhere. Haven't seen him since last Christmas.
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Post by vitugglan on Dec 26, 2020 12:16:56 GMT -5
The only Rowling I've read is the Harry Potter series, Fantastic Beasts etc., and one other of the so-called classroom books. How's her writing outside of the series? The husband got an electric lawn mower, edge trimmer and leaf blower. It was time to look at another mower anyway, or at least a new blade, and he was getting tired of schlepping down to the gas station to get more fuel. I think he thinks the constant fuel expense itself will cover the difference between the gas-powered mower and the electric. Me, I'm looking forward to less noise on mowing days. I got a nice little Taurus Spectrum. I wish they still made them in colors! I was all for the blue and white 'Miami Vice' looking one, but there was something in my heart for the black and white 'Storm Trooper' model. I called the company and asked if they still made them in colors, but they don't. They've backed off to the usual black/black or black/stainless. Shoots well, though, but it's finicky about its ammo. It's something I think I can handle as I get older, and it doesn't bite my thumb!
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Post by spaniardx on Dec 26, 2020 23:34:40 GMT -5
She writes just as well outside of the "magic and muggles" stuff. Its too bad she hasn't been able to actually do the novelization for the Fantastic Beast movies as all I've seen for sale are the screenplays. Nice as they are to read, its a bit like getting hot water gravy when you wanted a nice thick red eye or sausage gravy (with fair sized chunks of sausage in it). Her first non-magic and muggle book was The Casual Vacancy. Might shock some of her readers who only "know" her from Harry Potter as she isn't writing books about children. So, language and mature themes. And there are her "Robert Galbraith" books. Just looked on Barnes and Noble and she has apparently done five of them now. I have fallen so far behind on those! I've read Cuckoo's Calling and part of either Career of Evil or The Silk Worm. I had heard of Lethal White but not the 5th book, Troubled Blood.
I had to Google that, because my gun manufacture knowledge is pretty much Colt, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Sig, Webley... The image that popped up was black with khaki green. And I scrolled and saw a silver, white and ice blue one. Pity they stopped with the colors. Could have been worse when you called and asked, it might have been (to misquote Henry Ford, I think)"Yes! You can have any color you want, ma'am, as long as its pink!"
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Post by vitugglan on Dec 27, 2020 7:35:28 GMT -5
Lol! One color I don't go for is pink. Not that it's a bad color or anything, it just doesn't go with my coloring or my aesthetic. I do like Schwinn Bike pink so long as it's trim on a white bike. Did you see the black and white version? Everybody and their sober uncles all call it the 'Stormtrooper'. One guy even had a friend dress up in a stormtrooper costume to shoot it for a video. His stormtrooper did much better than Lucas's stormtroopers when it came to hitting the target. I like mysteries and noir detective stuff. How are the mysteries? Christie did a good job of hiding the culprit in plain sight, and I am still a massive fan of the Sherlock Holmes books. I guess I like drawing room mysteries, but like I said, a little Mickey Spillane don't do nobody harm.
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Post by spaniardx on Dec 27, 2020 11:56:02 GMT -5
The site I pulled up didn't have the Stormtrooper one. Not a great fan of pink myself. I have one pink tee shirt that I used to wear that I actually bought for myself. But, it was October and Breast Cancer Awareness and it has the carnation/hot pink loop ribbon on it and the Susan G Khomen (think that's how its spelled) name on it.
The books she writes under the pseudonym take place in modern London (at least the first two books). The main character, Cormoran Strike, is a private investigator and seems a bit Micky Spillane and, apparently they are planning to make a TV series out of it. Hope they do the first books, and give her time to write others, and don't mess them up too badly in the adaptation from print to video.
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Post by vitugglan on Dec 28, 2020 9:20:34 GMT -5
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