One of the comments left on the post was from Kate S. wanting pictures of the snow. Unfortunately I was preoccupied at the time and hadn’t taken any. She’s all done up for the holidays and needed some snow to make her feel more Christmasy or something.

So just for you Kate, I took out my old digital camera, shook the dust off it, gave it a good washing, stuck in some semi-fresh batteries, went outside and took a short video clip of the snow shower that came by today.

Okay, so it’s not that great and pics maybe would have been better but hey, the video actually shows the snow falling now doesn’t it?

Happy Holidays and hope you enjoyed it.

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Until I (re)discovered the world of Linux distros. And this (re)discovery brings me to the Irish.

Uh…what?

I love the Irish. I don’t know why. Is it because they have a certain way of putting things I find I can always appreciate? Or maybe it’s because they managed to polish the act of complaining down to an art form? The accent? All of the above?

Well, whatever the reason, I’ve always felt some sort of kinship with these rather outspoken, irreverent, anti-politically correct folks who always seem to be able to see things as they are and have no problem in saying so. A terribly refreshing change I might add as I’m often of the same mind myself.

So what has this to do with Linux distros? Well, just this.

I found me an Irish OS.

And it’s green:

I love this thing. It let’s me do all the stuff Windows does not including writing this post using Windows Live Writer in a virtually machined Windows XP. It’s a fine first cousin to Ubuntu with all the functions Ubuntu doesn’t have out of the box, it’s light on it’s feet so I can run on my old beast of a PC with no problem and I can dance with it all day without a single complaint.

And no, it’s not just “Ubuntu with a new theme” (surprisingly enough I even like the green).

Now all I have is whip a batch of virtual ink for when this sucker runs low and I’ll be set.

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And this particular week went from Wednesday to Wednesday no less. Not from Sunday to Sunday like any normal, self respecting week would. Nooo, it had to start somewhere in the middle.

The first thing that we had to get through was preparing for the local arts (and crafts although they try not to admit it in public) guild’s annual Christmas show. M’Lady just happens to be a somewhat reluctant member of this rather ridiculous society of local artists and had been dreading doing this show for weeks because, like all the shows that came before,  they always turn out to be disasters.

And this one was no exception. It could even be said that it was worse.

The show was 3 days long at a “not open for the season yet” ski resort located out in the boondocks of the Northeast Kingdom. So easy to find, just like all the other shows they did. One of the first ones was held in an empty general store in a “off the beaten track” town that no one ever wanted to go because it was patrolled by a rabid town constable.

And it rained all weekend.

Yup. Perks the old holiday spirit right up I can tell you. Nothing gets people out and about during the holiday season like leaden skies and a cold hard rain.

So while she was suffering away at the base of a local mountain that happens to be tall enough for a ski slope or two, I was minding the shop for three days and waiting on all those customers who came out in the cold hard rain to do some shopping for Christmas.

All three of them.

One was looking for a piece of scrap fabric to cover a donations box she was making and another was lost. The third and final one was a harried looking young mother who obviously had two out three kids back in the car who were not happy about it. But she just had to come in and look around don’t ya’ know.

And she did. Took her 20 seconds flat. She said she’d be back before Christmas without the kids.

On Monday it finally started to snow.

And today brought a fast but furious snowstorm I ended up having to clear out of the driveway.

Now it looks all white and Christmasy.

Figures.

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Unfortunately, it’s really late and I need to get to bed so I’ll have to do some catching up tomorrow sometime. Sorry about that but ‘tis the season and all that.

I’ll be back…

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Between getting things fixed on Laurie’s new-old car (replacing rusty gas tank plus new lines and broken tailgate latch), taking the bi-monthly trip to central Vermont, watching Laurie’s quilt shop, getting ready for shows and building my own Linux based desktop (well…kinda-sorta anyway), the old blog has been left out in the cold so to speak.

In the meantime, it’s been great to have all these things to do even though it still wipes me out at the end of the day and usually takes me another day to recover. I don’t mind though since it can only help push along my all-too-reluctant recovery from surgery I had this summer.

As much as I’d like to write up those 3 or 4 posts that have been circulating around my little pea brain for the past few days, I have to go mind the store for Laurie once again so she can come home and put together the stain glass sun catchers she needs for the weekend long show that’s coming up in a couple days.

And I’ll be minding the store Friday, Saturday and Sunday as well so next week looks about the earliest I’ll be able to put some effort into any post writing. That’s okay though…all in good time.

Nothing like the holiday season to keep one busy is there?

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