© American Greetings
Stop by CNH’s Water Cooler, where fellow Hubsters commiserate and comment on current events, or whatever you like, while our boys Jon and Stephen are away.
Hello Hubsters! For our American friends, hope you had a great Thanksgiving. For our Jewish friends, hope you’re having a great Chanukah as well. Let’s gather ’round the water cooler and huddle up before the show returns next week.
This was Year Two of yours truly manning Thanksgiving dinner sans help, and I think I did a pretty admirable job. There’s hardly any leftovers, so I must have done something right! And today I put up a ginormous 9 ft tall Christmas tree to let the world know there is no War on Christmas in my house. So, overall all, feeling domestically competent today. And Christmas-y.
Nevertheless, despite the effects of tryptophan, the world of news rages on. Today, Black Friday, has not passed without some violence. Despite all the bru-haha about stores opening on Thursday, shoppers were there in tow to pick up cheap flat screens and the like, likely solidifying the practice of opening the holiday shopping season ever earlier.
To counter that negativity, a bit of good news: ridiculously jailed Florida woman Marissa Alexander was released from a 20 year prison sentence pending a new trial for firing a “warning shot” at her husband, whom she believed was threatening her. Unfortunately, the judge refused to accept her “stand your ground” defense in 2010. Here’s hoping that post-Zimmerman trial, she can get a more fitting verdict for her (relatively minor) actions.
Another cool thing: Afghan girls are going to school….for skateboarding.
The Obamas paid a visit today in Washington D.C. to activists who have been fasting for 18 days and counting for immigration reform. As we know this has been a cause near and dear to Stephen, let’s hope Congress gets some new legislation kicking. It’s about time.
Thankfully, this week has been relatively quiet news-wise, given the holiday, everyone still crabbing about Obama’s health care website, and international news relatively calm, save for some minor skirmishes involving Chinese airspace.
I am truly excited for the end of the year shows coming up. By my “scientific” estimation, we have 3 more weeks of TCR left in 2013, so 12 episodes. I hope that they have gotten the ball rolling and decorated the set for the holidays — the TCR set designers do such a great job every year. I am also looking forward to the musical guests Stephen will select to ring out, and sing out the year’s end. I so love last year when he sang “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” with Elvis Costello and his lovely wife, Diana Krall.
What are you looking forward on the Report to as 2013 winds down, and the holidays gear up?
What stories do you think Stephen and/or Jon would cover right now? Was there anything that happened this week which prompted you think, “Stephen would have totally talked about that”?
Feel free also just to chat around the CNH office’s Water Cooler. Fandom is also friend-dom.
Water Cooler — Post Turkey Edition
© American Greetings
Stop by CNH’s Water Cooler, where fellow Hubsters commiserate and comment on current events, or whatever you like, while our boys Jon and Stephen are away.
Hello Hubsters! For our American friends, hope you had a great Thanksgiving. For our Jewish friends, hope you’re having a great Chanukah as well. Let’s gather ’round the water cooler and huddle up before the show returns next week.
This was Year Two of yours truly manning Thanksgiving dinner sans help, and I think I did a pretty admirable job. There’s hardly any leftovers, so I must have done something right! And today I put up a ginormous 9 ft tall Christmas tree to let the world know there is no War on Christmas in my house. So, overall all, feeling domestically competent today. And Christmas-y.
Nevertheless, despite the effects of tryptophan, the world of news rages on. Today, Black Friday, has not passed without some violence. Despite all the bru-haha about stores opening on Thursday, shoppers were there in tow to pick up cheap flat screens and the like, likely solidifying the practice of opening the holiday shopping season ever earlier.
To counter that negativity, a bit of good news: ridiculously jailed Florida woman Marissa Alexander was released from a 20 year prison sentence pending a new trial for firing a “warning shot” at her husband, whom she believed was threatening her. Unfortunately, the judge refused to accept her “stand your ground” defense in 2010. Here’s hoping that post-Zimmerman trial, she can get a more fitting verdict for her (relatively minor) actions.
Another cool thing: Afghan girls are going to school….for skateboarding.
The Obamas paid a visit today in Washington D.C. to activists who have been fasting for 18 days and counting for immigration reform. As we know this has been a cause near and dear to Stephen, let’s hope Congress gets some new legislation kicking. It’s about time.
Thankfully, this week has been relatively quiet news-wise, given the holiday, everyone still crabbing about Obama’s health care website, and international news relatively calm, save for some minor skirmishes involving Chinese airspace.
I am truly excited for the end of the year shows coming up. By my “scientific” estimation, we have 3 more weeks of TCR left in 2013, so 12 episodes. I hope that they have gotten the ball rolling and decorated the set for the holidays — the TCR set designers do such a great job every year. I am also looking forward to the musical guests Stephen will select to ring out, and sing out the year’s end. I so love last year when he sang “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” with Elvis Costello and his lovely wife, Diana Krall.
What are you looking forward on the Report to as 2013 winds down, and the holidays gear up?
What stories do you think Stephen and/or Jon would cover right now? Was there anything that happened this week which prompted you think, “Stephen would have totally talked about that”?
Feel free also just to chat around the CNH office’s Water Cooler. Fandom is also friend-dom.