Merry Christmas 2023!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:31 am

Only 20 days away folks. Ill start out by wishing everyone a merry christmas and happy holidays.

Heres a video chock full of Christmas gift ideas for yourself and others.

Future tech is here...

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:34 am

Are you going to run an Advent calendar of Christmas videos?

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:52 am

We did our Winterfest event this weekend and I'm Christmased out. Already.

Looking forward to seeing family later in the month and maybe taking a week off. But maybe not if end-of-year work shit hits the fan.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:19 pm

I just now remembered to put the little lighted bear tree up.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Dec 08, 2023 11:57 pm

Anyone watching Scrooged this year? I just watched the trailer for it and Im so tempted. Haven't seen it since me and my wife saw it in theater in 1988. Maybe it would be nice. I can count it as a Christmas movie, its fun, and also count it as one I haven't seen since we did.

I also need a Hallmark movie. They have 31!! To choose from this year. I guess they are showing one a night. Im not sure how to watch one though if its not already online some place. Scrooged I may can find. Might be on Amazon prime videos. Most things I want to see aren't though.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 12:45 am

Last year we watched about half a dozen different versions of A Christmas Carol. Scrooged was the only one we turned off before the end. Neither of us saw any funny there.

The 1951 movie with Alastair Sim won, FWIW. If you've never seen it, make 90 minutes for it this year.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 12:55 am

Scrooged is my favorite of all versions of A Christmas Carol. Anyone who thinks otherwise is clearly insane.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 1:03 am

To hate Scrooged is to hate joy.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 2:13 am

I saw it last year for the first time. I thought it was totally and absolutely ok.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:37 pm

This is the best version of A Christmas Carol.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:53 pm

Im sorry but I must disagree.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:53 pm

I was always partial to "A Diva's Christmas Carol" (VH1 original movie from 2000, with Vanessa Williams as the main character).

I do like the one with Patrick Stewart.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 6:18 pm

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 6:49 pm

I try to watch the Patrick one each year.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Dec 11, 2023 7:10 pm

A look at 1983s Christmas

Found another one...1994..one of the best years in my life.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:21 pm

So, I've got this unexpected package under my tree with some OO names on it.

(We don't have a proper 'suspicious' smiley.)

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:32 pm

Have a bomb dog sniff it.

miltonite · Post by **miltonite** » Tue Dec 12, 2023 5:56 am

Christmas cards are going out tomorrow. Late as usual. If anyone wants one just PM me your address. If you got one in the past you will be getting another unless you moved.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:59 am

miltonite wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 5:56 am Christmas cards are going out tomorrow. Late as usual. If anyone wants one just PM me your address. If you got one in the past you will be getting another unless you moved.

It's a little late this year, but next year we should bring back the card exchange.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:22 am

Can you spot the following?

Spoiler:

Fardaza · Post by **Fardaza** » Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:24 am

Merry Christmas to all!
See you in 3 weeks after our Caribbean cruise. It's supposed to be 75-85 degrees everywhere we go! Gonna get down to the 20s around here a few times. Heh heh.

JCC · Post by **JCC** » Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:52 am

I'm partial to the George C. Scott lead version of A Christmas Special.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Dec 17, 2023 4:32 pm

Fardaza wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:24 am Merry Christmas to all!
See you in 3 weeks after our Caribbean cruise. It's supposed to be 75-85 degrees everywhere we go! Gonna get down to the 20s around here a few times. Heh heh.

May you get a sunburn!

Zenn7 · Post by **Zenn7** » Sun Dec 24, 2023 10:33 pm

Just a couple hours now until it's officially Christmas day.

Seemed a good time to bump this and wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sun Dec 24, 2023 10:53 pm

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:01 pm

Merry Christmas to All.

Sitting down after an exhausting few days. One more set of presents to wrap, and the stocking stuffings, for Christmas Day.

Bought my 2 year old niece a riding Bee, an IKEA Circus Tent, DUPLOs and the classic Rankin/Bass Reindeer and Frosty DVDs. Had a great time being an Uncle Jungle Gym.

Teenage kids are happy but cranky from overstimulation. Younger daughter has a set of Frog zip-up sweaters, a Frog cover for her computer chair, and plushies. Older daughter has a D&D themed sorcerer skirt, clay modeling supplies and 6 books from an anime series.

Tomorrow is my wife’s family Christmas and one of my wife’s aunts who will come over for ham dinner with her son. The other aunt will stay home with a sick granddaughter.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:10 pm

The annual meat loaf and scalloped potatoes are done. Took me longer than I expected due to my newly arthritic hands, even though my mandoline made short work of slicing the spuds. But with 6 lbs of potatoes and 3 lbs of meat, that's dinner for the rest of the week.

Tomorrow we have a few gifts to open; my nephews and niece actually sent us something for the first time ever. Xmas with my family was always a one-way street before because I have extra money and they never did.

Tuesday morning I'm seeing a specialist about my hands. I really don't like being crippled.

Apart from that, this week is my chance to catch up on a couple of editing jobs that I let get away from me.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:22 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:10 pm Tuesday morning I'm seeing a specialist about my hands. I really don't like being crippled.

Arthritis is fun, isn't it? I was supposed to have surgery on my right hand last summer but my wife's torn rotator cuff has postponed that to next summer. Meantime I'm getting steroid shots in my wrist every three months. And my feet ache every day, but I won't give up my morning three mile walk.

It's going to be a quiet Christmas for us. We're not visiting anyone and of course no one visits us. But that's fine, my wife's tradition of not decorating the tree till Christmas Eve has fallen behind schedule. We got the outside done last week after three weeks of on again, off again decorating. But today she got caught up in unboxing and setting up her collection of snow globes and music boxes so I think she's start on the tree tomorrow.

Last you she didn't get done decorating till New Year's Eve, I suspect this year she might make the Epiphany

. However, while she thinks that it's weird to have the outside Christmas decorations up after mid-January (I disagree) she's thinking we'll leave the inside stuff up for a while after that.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 12:30 am

About 30 people showed up including screaming babies. I was overwhelmed and retreated to my room. They say this was a small one.

Baroquen · Post by **Baroquen** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 1:32 am

Christmas with my family today; then with her family tomorrow. Kids are excited despite being teenagers. It all works. Should be fun.

Merry Christmas, OOers!

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 2:15 am

It was a cotton candy Christmas eve in Northern California today!

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 3:03 am

jztemple2 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:22 pm
Kraken wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:10 pm Tuesday morning I'm seeing a specialist about my hands. I really don't like being crippled.
Arthritis is fun, isn't it? I was supposed to have surgery on my right hand last summer but my wife's torn rotator cuff has postponed that to next summer. Meantime I'm getting steroid shots in my wrist every three months. And my feet ache every day, but I won't give up my morning three mile walk.

We have a thread for griping about being old so I think I'll go there and do that. Merry Christmas, my imaginary friends!

Madmarcus · Post by **Madmarcus** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 8:54 am

The house is quiet while I make coffee. My wife is showering, son is sleeping still (at 24 he doesn't feel the need to be up before dawn on Christmas any more), and daughter will arrive within the hour.

Merry Christmas to all!

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:00 am

Merry Christmas, OO friends and acquaintances. Wishing you all a wonderful season and time of health and peace.

MHS got sprung from the hospital earlier this week (COVID recovery is a bitch without an immune system), her mother has been her a couple of weeks, our daughter rolled in on Wednesday, and her partner joined us on Saturday. We're giving what promises to be our biggest gift in our lifetime a bit later this morning, so excitement levels are high on the parental side. More info once the surprise is resolved.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:23 am

Merry Christmas everyone

and,

The Meal wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:00 am We're giving what promises to be our biggest gift in our lifetime a bit later this morning, so excitement levels are high on the parental side. More info once the surprise is resolved.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:31 am

I spent the morning wishing ChatGPT Merry Christmas. So Merry Christmas to this group of AI as well!

Lassr · Post by **Lassr** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 11:25 am

Merry Christmas to my OO family!

And anxiously awaiting The Meal's big surprise...

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 11:57 am

Ho, ho, ho.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 12:08 pm

Christmas morning has been good so far. Dawn over Indiana:

A big tree in Union Station:

Next up, seeing my mom. Merry Christmas, y'all.

Madmarcus · Post by **Madmarcus** » Mon Dec 25, 2023 12:45 pm

My wife has retreated to the sofa to sleep because she felt to sick to make it upstairs to the bed. Visiting adult children were sent off to the daughter's house to be festive. I've cleaned up a little and it looks like it will be a quiet Christmas afternoon.