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Merry Christmas

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On a lighter note, I’ll give you my top three Christmas movies.  Anyone that knows me knows that my sense of humor is a little non-traditional and probably won’t be surprised by this list.  Suffice to say I trend toward the humorous over the “heart-warming”…

  1. A Christmas Story – Okay, okay… there are some heartwarming moments in this, but overall there’s a lot of humor.  This movie was adapted from a short story by Jean Shepherd.  If you haven’t seen it, TNT runs it on a 24hr loop for Christmas Day.  It’s worth a look.  It will be on in the background when we’re opening presents Christmas morning.
  2. Scrooged  –  I’m not always a big Bill Murray fan and he’s his typical over-the-top self here, but I still enjoy this retelling of A Christmas Carol.  Bobcat Goldthwait is even well cast here.
  3. Bad Santa – This one’s not for everyone and definitely not kiddie fare.  If you get the uncut version there’s a lot of violence and language, but there are some genuine laugh-out-loud scenes here.  Billy Bob Thorton stars in this, so as you can imagine it’s not a sugar cookie and gum drop movie.

Yeah, well, in reality they all have some sort of redeeming, heart-warming ending, but it’s all done with a bit of humor.

          In closing I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and hopefully Prosperous New Year.  May you get your Red Ryder BB Gun and not a pink bunny suit (A Christmas Story) and not

a toaster

         to the jaw (Scrooged).  Hopefully no one steals your advent calendar chocolate either!  (Bad Santa)

Merry Christmas!!!

 

Germaphobia

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I am surrounded by sickness here lately.  Becky has been sick this week and is hacking and coughing and snotty when I go home.  Will and Kathy are both hacking and coughing here at the office.  Kathy has been making fun of me for wiping down my phone after she uses it!

For years I’ve been one of those people that wash my hands in the public restroom and then use the paper towel to open the door when I leave.  Touchless is great, where everything is on sensors and my preference is for bathrooms without doors or with doors that open out, but that doesn’t always work.  I’m not a big fan of the blower dryers for this reason.  

Well, I’ve noticed that I’m apparently not the only one.  More and more public restrooms have trash cans near the exit.  (Keeps me from having to practice my basketball shot across the room!)  I got a little vindication from Commercial Building Products magazine this month when I saw the picture here to the right.  It came with the caption, “Mounting paper-towel dispensers near an exit door provides users the chance to protect themselves from any germs left behind by others.  The conveniently located waste container makes it easy to keep used towels off the floor.”  Good plan!