Going back through my OhLife.com entries for the past few years I found that I have had an upper respiratory malfunction of some sort every year around this time. This year is no different. Well, it is in that it's a weird kind of cough only and only once and a while kind of thing.  I don't recall having something like this before.

My son has the exact same thing. We seem to have both caught it from the same source.  Another wonderful   holiday tradition!
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This is the first Christmas in many years where the family didn't come to our house. Instead, we are gathered in Maine, along the rocky coast thereof. It is currently a balmy 29 degrees F.

Our friends from Sydney send us photos of the visits to the beach, suffering scalding sunburns and having Christmas dinner dressed for a luau.

Our friends in Westchester complain or rejoice about the coming snow.

The pjs have been exchanged and it is off to nyquil induced sugar-plum land we go.

We'll always have Cuenca!

Merry Christmas.
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Done

It's always the little stocking stuffers that give me the hardest time.  We finished with gathering them just now.

After a moments relaxation, it's on to the wrapping!
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Following the Patriots-Texans Game on Google

Without having to explain why, just understand I have to follow each Patriots game on Google before we can watch it on TiVo.

I am listening to Dean Martin singing Ain’t That a Kick in the Head? on Pandora at the same time. 

If you know the score at this time, 2333, you would see how this is the most ironic song I could be hearing right now.

Two minute warning!  It looks like we have a chance to win…

No. Wait. The Texans scored? Nail biter?

Not yet…

Nope! Now we can watch it.  Wait… where did everyone go?

Oh, to bed.

There’s always tomorrow.

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#Blogchat

A hashtag on twitter is an indexing tool that allows users who don’t normally follow each other to open a discussion, add to a poll, or just add to the graffiti/noise. Don’t get me wrong here. Graffiti can be art and noise can be music when mindfully created and presented.

Paper.li is promoting the ongoing hashtag #Blogchat on twitter this month. They’ve broken the topics down starting each Sunday. The one beginning this Sunday  is” Email + Blogging – This is always a fun topic, we’ll explore ways that email can help us grow our blogs.”

The one thing this hashtag has done is inspire us to take a poke at setting up a Paper.li newsletter.  We did that at Belltowernews Daily.

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Skipped September??

When I just posted the semi-rant on Apple support, I noticed in the left hand column that there were no entries in Belltowernews.com for the month of September, in 2012. 

Wow!

It has been a long time since I have not at least made one blog entry in an entire month.  I’ll try to be better.

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After Two Hours with Apple Support

I am inclined to through the one MAC computer we have in the house in the trash can. 

They instructed me to download this, and then that because I needed that installed before this would work.

Then this said I needed this other that before this would work.  Finally I went to chat support.

They asked me a zillion questions and finally said, oh, you have THAT mac.  You have to buy an entirely new machine for this and that to work. GAHHHHHH!  No where did it say anything about what machine or other would support this and than, only I couldn’t get this to work without that, but once I had that, then this would work.

All of the above was just to get the bleeping iCloud to work. A posh on iCloud.  I’m sticking with SkyDrive.

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