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Yeah, the kids will have been up for a few hours, and found the stockings. And eaten the contents. The adults will be suffering from an excess of eggnog and Christmas spirit last night, but trying to be jolly "because it's for the kids" - who are starting to turn green due to the amount of chocolate they have found and stuffed their faces with, or sugar rushing round the house doing a wall of death on the walls.
Granny, having realised that she isn't going to have to do the cooking, will have grabbed the best seat, cracked open the Quality Street and the Amontillado, hogged the remote and is channel surfing for a Bing Crosby movie...
And the fights haven't even started yet!
Out of interest, how did you manage to wangle being offshore for Christmas? Well done! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: how did you manage to wangle being offshore for Christmas?
As the wife says to others "He always manages to have the rota exactly right, school holidays, shows, events etc. etc."
In reality, it just happened that way!
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all the best to you mate, way out there
slainte ! (as I raise another, probably the last) dram on scapa 15yo malt in your general direction
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Merry Christmas to you and all of the crew members on the platform
With friendly greetings, 
Eric Goedhart
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Thanks...
The dayshift have just had Christmas lunch and settling down to an afternoon of whatever.......
I'm stuffed, sweet potato soup to start, roast beef and turkey for main and had to give pudding a miss as no room at the moment!
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Yeah...
Very Merry Christmas to you!
All the best for Everyone!
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A Merry Christmas to you too!
Marc
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Wishing everyone Merry Christmas. Enjoy each moment of the day.
Let this day bring peace and love all around the world.
Suraj Sahoo|Coding Passion
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I Wish you the same...
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Same to you man.
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Thanks bro. Same to u too.
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Wishing you the same.
~R@JEES#
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Random Thought Written In Code Of The Day
Person steve_ballmer = UnitedStates.Washington.Citizens["Steve Ballmer"];
if(steve_ballmer.Reality.IsNormal)
{
Apocalypse.Begin(DateTime.Now);
}
else
{
Universe.BeInOrder();
}
This OTD is Copyright © Brisingr Aerowing 2014-Whenever.
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International[^] (i.e. you may use this, but you must give credit and you may not make money off of it).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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One of the "free" boxes. Windows 2012 R2, bare bones. Getting it installed correctly and then configuring it for FTP (which wouldn't have been possible without this CP article[^]) was a bit of a learning curve for some reason.
But hey, got my roll-my-own webserver running on it. A fun little exercise.
Marc
modified 24-Dec-14 18:29pm.
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Well done Marc !
(have noted article, too - have to build a backup-to-AWS/cloud service myself, might be a useful option 'ftp')
cheers, have a great Xmas/NY season
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So, since the in-laws moved in up the street (5 houses), every year we have to go to their place for the Christmas Eve dinner, white elephant gift exchange, and mother in law inducing bout of raging intestinal cramps. I **** you not.
I have found that a healthy dose of gin helps make the evening pass....
Well, today is Christmas Eve. The past 3 days, I have driven 1500 miles to visit my Army son, wife and grandson, and damnit, I'm going to drink a little, shower when I want too, and play my online game. At 1830 hours, I have to submit myself to 4 hours of torture, listening to my mother in law prattle on about this that and the other. Next year, I'm in Aruba.
Nevertheless, the funny part of this story is my wife coming to me and expressing her concerns. I quote, "Honey, I want to say this as lovingly as possible, but if you have to get sh*t faced to go to the dinner tonight, maybe you ought not to go."
I happen to be out of rum, which I will correct shortly. But I busted out laughing. Of course, I admit it - much to the discredit of my character, I would much rather get ****-faced and watch an old movie than go through this horror. There is no right answer here. If I say, okay, I'll stay home, it's just going to end badly. If I go, well, I guess we all have to take one for the team.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Quick! Read Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People! 
Marc
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I just knew I could count on CP, even on Christmas Eve, to cheer me up 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Get your mother in law ****-faced instead?...maybe she'll pass out early?...just spit-balling here, trying to think outside the box, as it were
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I just don't want to go there
that terrifies me
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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What about sedation?...is that a possibility?
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