Electronic Christmas Insanity

My grandmother is delighted in the most awesome way by electronic gadgets that sing and wiggle and dance (who isn’t?). Most of these strange items amuse the rest of us for a while, and then we take turns annoying each other with them throughout the afternoon. Over the years my grandmother has accumulated a small army of these things (most from my aunt Carol I think, but some came from my mom). Here is a Christmas orchestra carefully arranged for listening and viewing pleasures.

Enjoy

Merry Christmas

Missile Game 3D

Simple enough game, but for some reason it rules.
Play it now.

Been a Long Time Since I rapped at Ya

Malcom and Jill are stateside. We’ve spent the last five days frequenting local eateries and drinking various types of schnapps (I see why so many bums drink this stuff). Although their stay lasts until Monday, they are spending the next few days in NYC. They will return to CT Saturday and we’ll have early Christmas times with them before they depart. – Elise and Matt, we’ll send the Miis they made of themselves.

Maggie and I went to Dave and Busters to celebrate Oscars’ birthday, and I am pissed that this fine establishment has not branched out to CT. We had a great time in the city; I love New York at Christmas. I also like drinking beer and playing skeeball (without a lot of kids around).

With skeeball tickets Maggie got the giant pixie stick she desperatly wanted (and ate it in under five minutes) and I got this awesome monkey grabber thing. They entertained us the entire trainride home.

The snakes decided to decorate for Christmas.

More soon.

Buy Real Christmas Trees

This is an email I received from the head of the Vocational-Agricultural department at Middletown High.

Arguments for buying real Christmas Trees...

The National Christmas
Tree Association notes that 500,000 acres of Christmas trees in the U.S. provide
oxygen for 9 million people (and jobs for more than 100,000).

Connecticut grows over 5000 acres of Christmas trees, supplying the oxygen needs for around 100,000 residents.

Recycled Christmas trees are used to provide nest materials for birds.

Sunken trees offer protected habitat for fish in New Hampshire.

Communities along the battered Gulf Coast use Christmas trees to rebuild dunes and bolster wetlands.

And, last year, Canada's Biolyse Pharma began extracting a key ingredient of Tamiflu- a flu-fighting drug in high demand-from recycled Christmas tree needles.

And remember, real Christmas trees are a farm commodity, like carrots, apples, and oranges. They are better for the environment and smell great too. Christmas tree farming also keeps local workers employed and helps fuel the local economy. The sales of Connecticut’s Christmas trees add up to about $20 million each year, the vast majority of which stays right here in the state.

Happy Holidays!
Rebecca

Wii Will be More Careful

While bowling today, the lanyard snapped and the Wii remote slammed into the ceiling. The battery case opened and I almost crapped. The reports on the internet are true. These lanyards suck. Glad I didn’t launch it into the TV (although it would have been an excuse to upgrade).

The remote seems to work fine after the all that. So, props to Nintendo on building part of the product well. I will be less of a He-Man starting- now.

2006 Christmas Tree from Broken Arrow

Just lights for now.

More to come.

The picture in the living room doesn't do it justice.

It is the perfect tree for the space.