Wooooooo! Man! I had never really been aware of all the lyrics. I only knew a few bits & pieces. Those are some brutal descriptions of Mr. Grinch. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Scared.gif -

As Dr. Seuss cartoonishly exaggerated as they might seem though, they seem to fit like a glove a Manager for whom I worked once.

Enjoy the thoughts of great times as you reminisce, Annette. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Happy.gif -

The cutest ugliest little creature?
I guess ... I suppose ... I suppose I guess he could be.
You know ... in that Jack Nicholson's The Joker was the cutest ugliest little villain and Batman nemesis. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL.gif -

For some reason, immediately upon reading your comment and seeing that little Grinch with the Santa Cap image, what came to mind was Jack Nicholson's The Joker going, "Wait'll they get a load of me." http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Scared.gif -

I totally enjoyed this post. And I agree with you on Jim Carrey. I haven't been impressed with his acting from the first time I saw him. I thought then that he over did it.

Sorry I haven't been here more, but you know why. I am hoping to eventually get back here on a regular basis, but it will be awhile yet. Hopefully by the early part of next year!

Hugs, Love and Prayers ❤💙👼

Originally posted by SummerAngel:

Jim is so 'out there' and overacts so much that I can't get interested in any movie he's in.

I completely agree. I do not like Jim Carrey because he hams it up too much.

This is a good way to remember your daddy, Annette. With love and laughter.

Originally posted by L2D2:

This is a good way to remember your daddy, Annette. With love and laughter.

I totally agree. And I too, love this post.

Merry Christmas Annette.

awwwwwww how cute. ty and you too. when i get back on the computer will wish you merry christmas the right way.

Annette, I just noticed a tiny thing that needs a quick Fix in your Design. The Date with a Post there in your Calendar needs to be a different color to stand out from the other days.

Here is the quick Fix for you to implement:
Find the /*CALENDAR*/ section in your CSS Code.
In the last line:

#calendar tbody a:link, #calendar tbody a:visited { color: #FFD700; }

Simply change that Color Code to FFFFFF so that the Dates with a Post will display in White to contrast with the Gold Dates without Posts.

The same thing happened with Peppermint's Christmas Design.
That periodically happens on some of my Designs because at SuntanaLab I only have that ONE Post on which I do all my work. Thus, I have no NEW Post at any given time with which to test for this little detail. So, I just have to remember to check for it.

Here's a gift for Dad


Christmas Glitters Graphics
And one from me to you


Christmas Glitters Graphics

Originally posted by SummerAngel:

It's fixed to show my ONE post for December.

Well, Uhhh ... http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Secret.gif - that's actually 100% more Posts than me for December.

Oh, I'm contemplating a Mini Concert here soon. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Yes.gif -
I haven't decided whether it'll be a Christmas Carol or a regular song. I had been letting it slide because I knew I was going to first have to open up my Keyboard and clean the contacts on the various Buttons, especially on the Button for Starting & Stopping the Play function. It was now obviously scummy and thus had a slight delay in starting to Play the Rhythm, Bass & Drums Tracks that I would record. So, it made it difficult to precisely synchronize the start of the recorded track with the LIVE track. Or it also had the huge potential of screwing up a Perfect Take by NOT turning off the Rhythm, Bass & Drums right on the money at the end of the Take.

Anyway, the issue with the Buttons contacts has now been taken care of. It is now game on to try and get a Mini Concert up on stage sometime between this weekend and Christmas Day. It's more likely the latter.

Yeah, I'll bet there is. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL.gif -

What if I tweak it ... swap out "Blue" with "Butter" and make it Butter Christmas?

Some people are just gluttons when it comes to butter.

I found a net stocking on my door with an invite to our apt. complex Christmas Party, along with two tree ornaments, a thingey of craft ribbon, a George Straight Christmas CD and a Barry Manilow Christmas CD. I made an arrangement with the ribbon and ornaments and put it on my front door.

Alright! Things are looking up, Peppermint!
The only way that surprise Christmas Care Package could have been any better was if it had had a Chuck Christmas CD and a Stick of Butter. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Yahoo.gif -

But, seriously, as I have mentioned before, my oldest sister is currently living in South America. The other day, at work, they gave her husband a Christmas Package that had Fruit Cake, Cookies, Candies, Rice, Pasta, Cooking Oil and I forget what else. Wooooooo! I don't think I recall a Christmas Package ever having those last 3 items. A pretty thorough one.

What can I say, Annette?
I took my "Sunny Rules" cue and ran with it.

Well, I certainly do with my Sidebar. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Whistle.gif -

The game has begun.
I skipped my Workout session yesterday and instead dove into my Mini Concert project. I finally settled on a song and jumped right in.

O --- Kay, Annette, so you twisted my arm ... a little bit.
You nudged me ... or maybe you kicked me, smacked me on the head with a fish and PUSHED me into the Christmas Carol route. So, I've settled on that. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Yes.gif - But, no, no, no, it ain't gonna be any Blue Christmas. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Stop.gif - http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL.gif - But, don't despair. Whatever I do perform is guaranteed to be so freakin' awesome that it'll give you chills. I should know. I already tried it out yesterday and gave myself chills. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Cool2.gif -

I originally started out yesterday with the intention of it being just that one Christmas Carol. But, I think I've changed my mind and might add 1 or 2 more Christmas Carols for a Christmas Medley. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/ThumbsUp.gif - The first part, the 1st song (2 minutes) is DONE. Now I just have to settle on what other 1 or 2 songs I tack on. Not that it's recorded yet. I just mean tack on to the arrangement of the medley. I do have some possibilities. I just have to try them out today.

Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/BigGrin2.gif -
Nah. Hey, I can't say. I want it to be a Christmas Surprise. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Yes.gif -
A Christmas Present for you ... and for whoever follows my Mini Concerts and celebrates Christmas.
Heck, I've changed my mind at least twice since that last comment. Again, the 1st song is set. It's just the additional part of the medley that I had to experiment with. It's that the Beat & Tempo that I selected for that 1st song is tailor made perfect for that song ... but, I was having difficulty making those several song possibilities fit that Beat & Tempo. So, I had to nix those song possbibilites and try another song. I THINK I found one for the 2nd song. I'll see if I can get that one set on Sunday. Then I'll practice them and polish'em up and hopefully record them around Wednesday. AND put on the Christmas Mini Concert on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.

Cool Emoticons, Annette! http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/ThumbsUp.gif -
Glad you like the Sunny Piano Man. http://www.myemoticons.com/images/entertainment/musicians/piano-man.gif -

I bet HE would play me Blue Christmas. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/BigGrin2.gif -

Maybe I should replace the Sunny Rules! with him so you too would play Blue Christmas. http://files.myopera.com/SummerAngel/Smilies//cool.gif - http://www.myemoticons.com/images/entertainment/musicians/piano-man.gif -

Whoa! What happened, Annette?
You replied to my comment within my comment.

Well, I don't know if Sunny Piano Man would play Blue Christmas for you ... but, it kinda looks like Pinky Sue Kettle up there is performing a mean, wild, multi-octave Christina Aguilera version of Blue Christmas for you. Having always seen her in Overalls, I wouldn't have thought she had it in her, but that is awesome! http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/ThumbsUp.gif -

Alright, Annette, Christmas has come early for you.
As a Special Guest / Preferred Fan of my Mini Concerts, I am treating you tomorrow Monday to a Pre-Chistmas Show screening of my Christmas Mini Concert's material. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Yes.gif -

This afternoon I have already recorded the Rhythm, Bass & Drum Beat Track in my Casio Keyboard to what I'm gonna perform on my Mini Concert on probably Christmas Eve. Tomorrow Monday I plan on adding the Lead Track as I record the whole Christmas Enchilada.

As has been the case for a while, you already know that because of my inferior computer and Dial Up, I can't actually Play or download my own Mini Concerts. So, after I upload my Mini Concert's MP3 into my MyOpera Files sometime tomorrow Monday, I'll need you to verify that it CAN be Played and / or downloaded.

Of course, I'll have to swear you to secrecy.
You'll have to keep the song's title hush hush.
Okay, so for promotional purposes, you can feel free to declare how awesome it is after you listen to it. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Cool2.gif -

Oh, I've done the same thing before, Annette, that is, inadvertently replying within someone else's comment. Heck, I've also inadvertently deleted comments before when I've lost track of my bearings and what I was doing.

Heyyyyy! It made my day that you and your Media Player really enjoyed that pre-screening of my Christmas Mini Concert. I took so long to reply because I've still been VERY busy conducting experiments / tests over here to acquire information to send to Robert from MyOpera so that he can try and Coon Dog the solution to my CSS Code saving problem. What's making it really difficult for him is that it's one of those problems that only manifests itself HERE on MY end. He can't duplicate the problem over there. So, that's why I have to acquire as much data as possible so that maybe he can zero in on the problem via logic or by seeing a pattern in the Info that I send him.

Merry Christmas, Annette

I actually sort of saw How the Grinch Stole Christmas on Christmas Eve at the family get together. I say, "sort of" because well, at the same time, I was giving myself a Wham Bamm Crash Course on PowerPoint 2010.

It's that I'm supposed to give my oldest sister a crash course on the basics of putting together simplistic PowerPoint Presentations. I am very good with MY PowerPoint 2000, but I knew the PowerPoint 2010 in her & her husband's Laptop was bound to look and operate VERY differently than my Flintstones PowerPoint. So, I told my sister to bring her Laptop so that I could figure out where the commands, functions and stuff in general is on PowerPoint 2010 before I can tutor her. So yeah, at the same time as somewhat watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas, I was also familiarizing myself with PowerPoint 2010. I did figure out the basics, but I didn't get to tutor her yet. That'll be sometime during this week. But, it definitely has to be before December 31 because that's when she and her husband go back to South America.

Happy 3rd Blog Anniversary, Annette! http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Yahoo.gif - http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Dance.gif - http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Cheers.gif -

But Powerpoint should be Powerpoint right? .
I mean it's not like you were trying to learn Impress or something was it? .

Oh sure, Aadil. True, for the most part, it can basically be said that the end result will be that PowerPoint will be PowerPoint. It was never remotely a case of, "OMG! I am overwhelmed! PowerPoint progress has left me behind. Game Over!" http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL.gif - I had told my sister from the get go that true, with 10 years difference between my PowerPoint and hers, there would no doubt be a HUGE difference in the User Interface and how everything was done, but that ultimately, it wasn't rocket science or brain surgery.

It was similar to when we were changed from the Old MyOpera to the New MyOpera. We had to poke around and figure out where everything was. The actual big problem is that we have a VERY small, almost nonexistent window of opportunity. I'll be seeing my sister on Thursday and that's when the PowerPoint Crash Course will have to go down. Cuz otherwise, she returns to South America on the 31st. So, it's Thursday or Bust. I already figured out my part. Now it'll be up to whether she doesn't get intimidated by PowerPoint and doesn't assimilate quickly what I show her. She's gonna have to become an efficient Chuck Erudition Sponge for about 2 hours. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/BigGrin2.gif -

She'll then have to make do with some tutorials to which I'll give her links. Supposedly her husband knows PowerPoint, but she doesn't know whether he has the patience to teach her. Probably NOT since he already friggin' knows why she brought the Laptop over the other day and he didn't volunteer, "Hey! Don't worry about it. I'll teach her." Not that I have any proof, but Ehhh, frankly I doubt he knows much about PowerPoint. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL.gif -

Twenty years ago people just used a slide projector. .

As Scotty would have gone in Star Trek: IV ...
A Slide Projector? How quaint.

That reminded me of Christmas Day.
My oldest niece's 4-year old boy was super busy and focused on playing games on his i-Pad. Okay, so the inscription on the back of the i-Pad says it's his and his Mom's. Anyway, the little boy was busy playing games on the high tech i-Pad. Someone comes over, "LOOK, Diego! Look what aunt ____ got you. Shake it and see what it does." So, the little boy reluctantly takes his attention away from his i-Pad and ho-humly shakes the Low Tech toy ... maybe some Train Engine or something along those lines. The low tech toy vibrates and makes some noise. The 4-year old boy just makes some gesture of "Oh, Okay." And he immediately goes back to playing with his high tech i-Pad. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL2.gif -

That about sums up the modern child for you. .
Actually, someone asked me to install Powerpoint for them a few weeks ago. (or rather, they asked for, "the software for presentations." )
Since I didn't have Powerpoint, I promptly obliged and asked them for a usb flash drive. And then went and installed the Portable Apps platform to it with Libre Office. .
I spoke to him today and he was very impressed with Impress. .
(Jail Babas like free things! )

Ahhh HAH! I KNEW it! Or at least I was close.
I had been, "I'm sure that Impress thing is Linux-related." http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL.gif - So it's the Libre Office version of PowerPoint then.

A year or 2 ago I tried the Open Office equivalents of PowerPoint and Word. I wasn't impressed. I think I messed around with them for one or two afternoons and that was it. I uninstalled them. I had heard rave reviews that they were virtually 100% compatible with the original MS versions. Not true. The quality of what is displayed is also NOT identical.

I wouldn't want to gamble that I'd make a Presentation with Libre Office and then count on that in front of 200 people ... PowerPoint was going to be able to open that Presentation and display it exactly as I created it and without any surprise gremlins, anomalies or whatever undesired nightmares.

Anyway ... Jail Babas?
Is that South African for Jail Babes?
Or South African for Jail Neanderthals?

If I had a copy of PowerPoint 2010 with which to mess around, I COULD make a Chucktorial for my sister, Annette. But, I don't have that luxury. Okay, so my sister doesn't know of the existence of Chuck. So, it would have to be a Tototorial. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL2.gif -