Happy Labor Day! Celebrate by NOT Working!

'Nuff said.

Random Thoughts. . .

We're knee-deep in holiday weekend, and the blogging inspiration still isn't there for me. I had two Thanksgiving dinners (Part I: The Beginning, and Part II: The Revenge), followed by an amazingly uncomfortable attempt at sleep, and awakening to a scratchy throat and general achiness! Hazzah!

Anyway, while I don't have a topic in mind for a blog post, I did have some free-association, Larry King-like thoughts rattling through my brain last night. Let's see if I remember any of them. . .

Greenlee Gazette's Random Thoughts (post-Thanksgiving digestion edition):

- Early morning "Black Friday" shoppers are weird. I thought all you hyper-Christmas fans got your shopping done months ago.

- Liberals aren't "scared" of Sarah Palin. We are scared that a large enough percentage of Americans will nominate and/or elect an unqualified, ignorant, ex-beauty queen wack-job to be President. And I ain't talking about Carrie Prejean.

- If you leave turkey leftovers out on the edge of a table, and you have a table-height dog running around, he will eat all the turkey. And it isn't his fault!

- Computer death, and the loss of your files really isn't much of a tragedy. Unless you have precious photos with no backups, priceless gallies of text for your memoirs/novel, or some other desperately valuable thing saved in your hard drive--and only on your hard drive--losing your data is really no big deal. I'm quickly finding that a clean reinstall is worth the hassle of putting back your old programs, and tweaking your settings back to how they used to be. Because hours of fussing and fretting, and downloading "fixes" and trying virtual CPR is often not worth the time and effort.

- Trying to avoid a cold or the flu when living with someone who is sick, is rather pointless. Go ahead, try to keep the remote controls, faucet handles, door knobs, telephones and pets germ free or untouched by sicky and healthy. Unless you're OCD, the only thing that will save you is a strong immune system. And while we're on the topic. . .

- I ain't buying that Vitamin C, zinc and Air-bourne will stop a cold or flu in its tracks if you "catch it" fast enough. Bull pucky. If you're gonna be sick, you're gonna be sick. I'm not saying those things will hurt you, but I don't believe they help much--if at all--either.

- A house feels 50% cleaner if the kitchen is clean and the beds are made. Not so good with the bed making, but once the kitchen is cleaned up, I feel so much better. Ours is a disaster at the moment, and I don't even wanna go in there.

- On a long weekend, sleeping in, and then staying in your pajamas into the afternoon can be a great thing. On the other hand, getting up early, getting your coffee, getting cleaned up and dressed before it's even 9:00am can also be a great thing: "look how much DAY I have left!" Remember, in the winter, if you don't get moving until afternoon, you've got like 2 or 3 hours of light before it is dark again!

Still Giving Thanks

Image from source, Think Progress

Hey, everybody. I hope you're all having a great holiday weekend. On this end, there is much to be thankful for, and other things not so much. The Other Half is coming down with a cold, and I fear I may be too. But I'm off to a friend's for Thanksgiving II: The Sequel. And I'm not much in the mood for blogging. I'm in good company, as there aren't many readers (or other bloggers) today doing all that much.

I did find a great Thanksgiving-themed post at Think Progress, and that will have to do for my sum-total of blog posts for the day. Enjoy, and have a great weekend.

[Excerpt]

27 Reasons To Give Thanks

We’re thankful President Obama is thinking long and hard about committing more troops and money to Afghanistan.

We’re thankful President Bush feels liberated now.

We’re (not) thankful Dick Cheney has elected to move from his undisclosed location to the media spotlight. . .

Read more at: Think Progress

Best Thanksgiving Episode EVER: WKRP in Cincinnati: Turkeys Away!

I have a lot of Thanksgiving themed clips (reruns!) below, but I've saved the best for last.

One of the best episodes of the always-classic WKRP in Cincinnati has to be the Thanksgiving episode, "Turkeys Away!" If you loved it then, you'll love it now. And if you are too young to remember WKRP, see what you've been missing. . .

A Simpsons Thanksgiving Prayer

More reruns!

This is a clip from a Thanksgiving episode of The Simpsons. No holiday would be complete without a cheeky reference from Homer and family.

Friends: Thanksgiving with Brad Pitt

More reruns!

Friends had some great Thanksgiving episodes. This is the one with Jennifer Aniston's then-husband Brad Pitt as an ugly duckling old friend of Ross.

A Roseanne Thanksgiving

Holidays are always a time for reruns. So here's one I ran last year!

And heck, why not, an episode of Roseanne. I think they did a Thanksgiving themed episode every year, and it always reminded me of my family. This is part 1, but the other parts are available at the end of the clip. Enjoy.

Blast from the Past: Another Holiday by The Other Ones

If you're like me, you get tired of 80s compilations and clip shows that show the same old thing. I love Pat Benatar, Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett and Culture Club. But everybody remembers them. What about the one-hit wonders, the songs that struck your fancy, but you never hear on the "80s and more!" stations, or on I Love the 80s?

"Another Holiday" by The Other Ones is one of those songs for me. I can listen to it over and over again and never get tired of it. Yet, I've never found it on an 80s compilation. I've never seen it anywhere without looking for it. But it's a great song! So, since I have my own blog, here it is. . .



And here is a lip-synched version of the song, but it actually plays out until the end, instead of a fade-out. . .