Merry Christmas!!!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go;
Take a look in the five-and-ten,
glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas,
Toys in ev'ry store,
But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
On your own front door.

It's Christmas Eve. The most magical night of the year. Everything happens on Christmas Eve. When did it start to snow in VT at that nice Inn? On Christmas Eve, just as Bing started to sing White Christmas. When did Scrooge get visited by the three ghosts? Christmas Eve. By the way, my favorite versions of the Dickens classic have to be Scrooged with Bill Murry and the classic Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol. It was Christmas Eve when John Boy trekked out into the snowy night looking for his father in the Homecoming which turned into The Waltons.
So what are your memories of Christmas Eve? I think it's almost better than Christmas day. It is still a day that you can fight the shoppers getting their last minute gifts. The tree never looks better as all the gifts are sitting under it, which reminds me I still have a couple to wrap.
So I will cut this short and start to get ready for tomorrow. I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and I hope you get everything you asked Santa for. I would also like to wish Benjamin James Przedwiecki Merry first Christmas as he arrived yesterday in time for the fun.

In a little while from now,

If I'm not feeling any less sour,

I promised myself, to treat myself,

And visit a nearby tower ..........

alone again.....naturally



I've lost my passion. Is it really something that you lose or does life beat it out of you? Either way, it's gone. What passion you ask, my need to write this blog? Work? Life itself? That last one is a dangerous one. Let's start with work. There are two ways you can earn a living in this world, one, have a job. The other is to have a career. They are one in the same you say, but you would be wrong. One you hate the other you love. I hate my job. The only bright side to my job were the people that I worked with and as the passion for work was beat out of me the less and less I liked the people there. After almost 25 years I am going back to the afternoon shift, it's not my choice. The powers that be in Washington sent out a directive to each plant to see if it was feasible to do all the work in two shifts instead of three. Seeing that I work in the land of the Emperor's new clothes, the plant managers all said, "YES". The Union on a national level said wait, you can't just shut out one whole shift with out consulting all the bargaining unions. National said, "It's not a nation wide plan. It's a plant by plant decision" With every plant headed by a yesman, you can see the outcome. The workers, who all see that the Emperor is naked, know that it will never work an that we will take all the blame for the outcome. Work sucks.

This blog. Not that I was passionate about writing but it was fun. This is my first update in six weeks. I've had nothing to write about. Thanksgiving eehh, Christmas, not in the spirit. Life in general, same old same old. On top of all that my computer has a virus. I have the antispyware pro 2009 virus. It's pest. It doesn't let you surf the net unimpeded. It wants you to buy it's spyware. I would be willing to pay the $50 bucks if I knew for sure it would work. In the meantime when my IT guy gets the chance he will stop by and see what he can do.

So, how have you all been?

Don't worry about me I'll get through this and win back my passion. Seeing all the kids next week will help, you see, I haven't lost my passion for them. Maybe dancing naked around the bonfire at Sunday's winter solstice pagan Christmas party will get me back in the holiday spirit, it's worth a try.