I got the flu.
Well, I guess I got that AFTER Christmas. I was in bad shape for a couple days, feverish and headachy and unable to sleep. It was awful.
I had to call in sick for 2 days. I always feel bad about that, especially when it happens at the beginning or end of the week. I always think it looks like I'm trying to weasel out a couple extra days off.
But I'm back now, and just have the vestiges (cough, etc.).
For Christmas, my REAL gifts included Season One of The Rockford Files (I always loved that series), a Disney Treasures DVD ("Disney Rarities") and a Brian Setzer Christmas DVD (great show). I didn't get any Christmas CDs this time, but that's largely because I was buying so many, my wife wasn't sure what I had and what I didn't have. Some day soon, I'll give the rundown of this year's acquisitions. I'm somewhere around 380 Christmas CDs now.
I also made a CD for people I work with. I chose about 25 great songs, a lot of not-typical tunes. No Bing Crosby "White Christmas," but no "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer," either. I chose things I thought my friends wouldn't have. Sample: "Christmas Island," by Leon Redbone; "A Party For Santa Claus," by Lord Douglas Nelson; "Sock It To Me Santa," by Marshall Crenshaw, "Baby, It's Cold Outside," by Lou Rawls and Dianne Reeves.
I got a lot of positive feedback for that CD. I may have started a new tradition!
Anyway, hope your Christmas was great, and Happy New Year!
-Zube.
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You have *350 CDs* of JUST CHRISTMAS MUSIC? Holy Bing, man! And here I had assumed that now that you're all grown up and settled down and have a family and all these other expenses and not any time anymore, you probably aren't really into very much of ANY music anymore.
I'm afraid to ask how many OTHER CDs you have. And how 'bout your button collection?
The button collection has stagnated. It grew for a couple more years after I moved out here, but I lost interest.
I have probably 750-1000 CDs otherwise ... I haven't counted them. Mostly into Christian rock, interested in Big Band, Jazz and Pop Standards. I'm 40+, modern music ain't for me no more! I've become my parents!
Oh, yah, and Disney. Lots of Disney. But you knew that, didn't you?
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