Nonesuch #228 My Favorite Charlie Brown Special

A Charlie Brown Christmas
Enjoy

Nonsuch #227 What it is all about

This truly is what it is all about.

KC's Secret Santa revealed
Now, as he fights cancer his message of charity takes root in unexpected places.
By LYNN FRANEY
The Kansas City Star
Tammy Ljungblad | The Kansas City Star

For 26 years, the man Kansas City knows as Secret Santa has freely given away money — $100 bills by the handful — to hundreds of down-on-their-luck folks.

He never has told them who he is. Instead, he has remained anonymous, an unnamed Jackson County businessman thrilled to share the joy of a little extra cash at the holidays.

But things have changed.

He has cancer, and this year is probably the last for a “sleigh ride.”

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Nonesuch #226

Court went well yesterday. Got there early, was 4th in line, second name called and 4th to see the DA. I brought my proof of inspection and work order with recept from having the inspection and lights replaced. She looked at the date and gave a little laugh cause the date of the ticket and the date on the recepts are the same. She looked my documents and said "thank you. you are free to go." I will tell you, I was amazed at the folks that were there with me waiting. Well, more with the way they were dressed. I think there may have been four or so folks dressed for I would say work and the others were in jeans and t-shirts, jogging pants and sweat shirts, looking like they just rolled out of bed and came to court. Even if I wasnt heading straight to work after court, I would not show up in jogging pants for court. Thank good no one came in spandex. But I think I did see a pair of parachute pants.
Maybe that is just me.

Been listening to last.fm, an online radio station. I had seen links to it before over at DancinFairy's and Caboozle's blogs. Really like what I am hearing. Had it on the chillout station, heard Moby, Sigur ros, massive attack, dido. Really good mix. Think it can keep my going till I can buy a new iPod. I will be honest, I am looking at the zune as well, microsoft's new mp3 player as well.

Building myself a new computer, buying the parts as I can afford them as I am trying build a nice gaming machine. I just ordered the video cards and memory for it and those are the last peices for now. I will be getting more memory in the future than will probably be in a month. Maybe this set up will allow me less problems with DDO. We shall see.

More later

Nonesuch #225 what i'm listening to

Haven't done this in awhile cause well I havent had time to go looking for new stuff. But here goes:

Willie Nelson - Songbird
Best Willie I have heard in years. Great tunes, great lyrics. "Songbird" is a definite listen and "Blue Hotel".

Tyler Hayes
Nice new singer, well new to me, in the vein of Ryan Adams. Check out "Maybe it's me".

Bradley Walker Acoustic / Country / Bluegrass but in the old country style(Willie, Hank Williams Sr, George Jones)In good company with signing with Rounder Records. Heard him on Fresh Air with Terri Gross on npr yesterday and have not got his songs out of my head yet.

Chris Cornell - Billie Jean(Micheal Jackson cover) Check it out* and decide for yourself. Found by way of pop candy by way of sterogum.
*link expired

Léonie - A blogfriend that damn, can she sing. Listen to "Happiness", rinse repeat. I know I do.

Ben Kweller - For being so young, he has done so much. Pop in a pure form. "Penny on the train track" is required listening for me, at least once a week.

DAUGHTRY - Yes, that Chris Daughtry. His first album comes out in a week. Saw him on local tv morning news program 2 weeks ago and he played "It's not over", just a great song. Powerful lyrics coupled with powerful voice. I see a long career even if he was on AI.

I see a new iPod purchase coming soon.

Others I am checking out:
The Popper Project
Phil and Friends
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals

Nonesuch #224

Friday
It is almost 80 degrees here. Indian Summer is in effect. It will not last long. Sunday will see the mid 50s again. I sound like a weatherman. I wanted to do that briefly when I was a freshman in high school and to get people to like me I said that Greg Fishel, local weather reporter at wral was my cousin. Yeah, I was a little strange back then and not much has changed. I guess I just wanted attention but who doesnt want attention as a teenager.
Put together most of my new computer today. All I have left to do is add the memory, video cards and the hard drive and should be good to go. Until it starts up and gives that beep I will have doubts. It went pretty straight forward, better than the last time but I do have more experience with computers than I did 3 years ago.
Very tired. Hope to get some rest this weekend but I have cleaning to do so I can have the house ready for when they install new windows. That will be nice, keep the drafts away and the house warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
It is Peanut Butter Lovers' Month and you all know how much I like peanut butter. I hope to make a peanut butter poundcake and a peanut butter pie sometime this month. have a peanut butter sandwich and celebrate peanut butter today.
Get well soon, Anne. :)
Joined plentyoffish.com, a free dating site. Got an email the second or third day I was on. It read: "I really like your kind of personality".
I just wasnt sure how or why to respond, so I said "Thanks". Havent heard anything else from her. I just didnt know what to say. How does she know my personality from 4-6 sentences of a profile. The whole process, the game, of dating makes me so tired and I say that I am not going to check my email from those sites but yet I do and get nothing. And to be honest I have not seen a profile I would like to send a message. Well, maybe one. I have seen her on other sites so I figured hey, if I keep seeing her why not send you an email but I have no idea what to say. I am somewhere between wanting to make a steller impression and being as vague as possible in order to seem cool instead of desperate if that makes sense to anyone. But, I am not cool. My idols were weathermen and nerds. My profile starts "geek seeks" not very original but it rhymes dammit. I may just go back to my bitter profile. I got more hits from that than any of my other ones. It does seem my posts are the same lately. I guess that is a sign that not much is going on for good or bad and that is a good thing but sometimes I just want to have a dare to be great situation.
May watch Princess Bride on DVDt tonight. Food Lion had it for $5 last week and I had to get a copy. May put it on while playing DDO which I havent played in a few weeks. Just not into it after they tried to add new content and it didnt go over well. Seems to be better now but it has lost its luster for me, what little it had. I have had problems with the game since March when it came out.

Nonesuch #223

No shade, no shine, no butterflies,
no bees
No fruit, no flowers, no leaves,
no birds! -- No-vember!
-- Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

Nonesuch #222

Bustle

One of the best descriptions of middle school/high school dance(not sure, we had church dances as well) of what goes on inside a teenage boy's mind. Good stuff, Shane.