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| To everyone in the community: Merry Christmas if it is your thing. Recent Saturnalia if the solstice is where your mind falls and happy mid-winter (or summer) break if you are generally indifferent.
Whichever way you fall, I hope that you are all warm, well and get to spend time with loved ones; especially for those in Europe suffering for the whimsical ego of a mad man and to our friends in Canada and the US under the yolk of weather chaos.
Stay warm, stay safe and I hope you all find some time to unwind over this period. |
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Subscribers H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,677 |
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| Merry Christmas from Japan!
Pretty cold today. I took a picture of Mount Fuji today. Covered in snow. 
-stingraze  (mount-fuji.jpg)Attachments ----------------  mount-fuji.jpg (49KB - 0 downloads) |
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Administrator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 17,976 |
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| Wow, what a great view for you to wake up to! Shame about the power lines (?) |
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Subscribers H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,677 |
Location: | Japan | Status: | |
| Thank you!
I took it from a hill, but yes, I can see Mount Fuji quite well from my house.
The power lines are the bad things in the scenaries around here...
-stingraze
Edited by stingraze 2022-12-25 8:43 AM
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Subscribers H/PC Elite Posts: | 746 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| Merry Christmas! |
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 328 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| Merry Christmas! |
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Subscribers H/PC Sensei Posts: | 1,197 |
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| Merry Christmas!
Fortunately, it's mid-morning over here in Silicon Valley and about 54 F......
Stay warm....
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
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| Same to y'all...happy holidays. Been strangely cold on the Mississippi gulf coast. 24°F (-4C ). But should be back in the 70°s next week at this time.  (MissGulf.jpeg)Attachments ---------------- MissGulf.jpeg (121KB - 5 downloads) |
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Subscribers H/PC Guru Posts: | 5,713 |
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| Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays everyone!
Love the photos that Rich and Stingraze posted.
Weather 22C/72F right now in Phoenix, Arizona! |
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,667 |
Location: | Southern California | Status: | |
| Eat your hearts out. It's over 27C (80F ) here in SoCal.  |
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Administrator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 17,976 |
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| Boxing day morning yields 4c with wind chill to -1c.
I hope everyone is well fed and suitably stuffed this morning! |
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Subscribers Factorite (Elite) Posts: | 188 |
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| And now going out to shopping hell? |
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Administrator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 17,976 |
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| Good grief no 
I'm probably the least material person you've met... and I don't want Covid. Two things that mean the High Street loses out. |
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Subscribers Factorite (Elite) Posts: | 188 |
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| Here around it is a "quiet holiday". So no shopping legally allowed.
But I get your point. There is no need to run around one special day for things you can buy the whole year.
If there was a last minute sale in a recently discovered abandoned computer store from the nineties --- things were different
Stefan
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Administrator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 17,976 |
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| The "boxing day sales" aka the start of the January sales have always been a retail nonsense here. The North America's obsession with Black Friday, just without the insanity or violence. Like any other sale though, it's not a sale any more. when I was a kid, the Boxing day sales used to be end of season and clearance stock getting... uh... put on sale. Now everything is new stock, cheap consumer rubbish and like Black Friday, everything is fake mark-down. They just mark it up to double price 7 days before and then given 40% off.
It's all fake and I don't think that retailers realise the damage that they do to themselves. There are still enough saps to make it financially worth while. |
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