Peace, goodwill and all that.

Hope the crazy weather patterns are not too crazy where you are.

I am aiming to write something for the board these next few days.

Best wishes to you all.

Al B.

How the Hooded Hood Stole Christmas

The snow was on the ground
It lay in piles and heaps
And drifted all around
In mounds and hills and deeps

And when you see such deep deep snow
You know it’s Christmas soon
With stockings, cheer and mistletoe
And jelly on a spoon
And Finny hiding neath a chair
And telling folks he isn’t there.

The Legion gathered around the warm fire
To share out the chocolates in piles
And party together before things got dire
Or the cocoa did bad things to Ziles.

Just picture them there with their friends all around
There's Bry hugging Laurie and Whitney with Hat
Donar full of mincepies and snoring quite sound
And Yo’s purple bunny fighting Lisa’s big cat
And Nats, Ex, and spiffy have got at the booze
And Troia’s all sleepy and starting to yawn
And Meggan and Drury are starting to shmooze
And dull thud is singing, and Dream’s found the porn.
And DK is lurking and ManMan is jolly
De Brown Streak is horny and Lania is hot
That shriek means that Space Ghost has sat on the holly
And Trickshot is snickering, he does that a lot.
AG’s hung the socks up for Santa to fill them
Enty’s got sensors to warn when he comes
Xander’s advising, and later he’ll bill them
Vizh is just worried when that strange gadget hums.

Well…
There they all were.
They were happily sat
Except for the heroes who happily stood
Or were happily giggling laid down on the mat
When who should step in but the bad HOODED HOOD!

“Oh oh!” cried out Dancer
“What are you doing here?
This isn’t your party, you can not come in!
You’ll do something nasty to spoil it I fear.
For you are quite wicked and steeped deep in sin!”

“To arms, mine brave comrades!” called Donar in warning.
“We’re under attack!” jumped up Jay with a yelp.
“Oh why couldn’t that nasty man wait till the morning?”
“Lair Legion, Lineup!” called spiffy to help.
It didn’t.

[Sorry, that's as far as it ever got]

Circa late 1990's by the looks of the cast.

And while we're raiding the hard drive - here's a photo of an old English house (mansion) that I always thought would make a good Lair Mansion pic.

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Fair warning; from Christmas Day through the New Year's weekend, don't expect to hear from me, since I'll be visiting family in Idaho during that time.

Yes, I'm finally getting to take some vacation time. I've literally been working to fill two people's jobs since the start of October, and even after I take this holiday break, I'll still have more than three weeks of vacation time left to take.

Because we're flying out to see the rest of the family on Christmas morning, the folks and I opened our gifts to each other at their house on Christmas Eve.

While I would not have bought the latest edition of the Marvel Encyclopedia for myself, since it references Spider-Man's marriage retcon as the current status quo of the character, I still appreciate that my mom got it for me, especially since it took me long enough to gently educate her that me being a fan of superhero comics did not equate to me wanting to receive Spawn merchandise.

I am also now the proud possessor of a slim but relatively protective laptop carrying case, so that I can stop using my backpack to tote it around, and a wash-and-wear earth-tone bathrobe, which will allow me to dress as either Obi-Wan Kenobi or the Dude from The Big Lebowski for Halloween.

I still owe some people some replies. I'll get to those when I get back.