Texas Heritage Trails

From the website:

The Texas You Will Remember!

Big Region! Big History! Big Fun!

The Texas Plains Trail Region is a wonderfully warm place to make your holiday memories. Our communities are filled with old-fashioned ways to celebrate this season with your family. Our region offers lots of quaint shops to find that special gift and Christmas celebrations that are sure to bring a smile. Check out the events calendar to plan an outing that will be remembered forever.

I believe I had come across this site before, searching for links about the Panhandle area, but today noticed a hit from the website on one of the "Cast Away" posts. The webmaster has been good enough to include this blog on their Movies in the Plains Region page.

We're gettin' famous here, folks...although, face it, we're a Pee Wee Herman blog in a Robert Redford universe.

Finally!

From the email archives:

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Finally got my Christmas lights up!


If you need any help putting yours up, just holler.

Dear Sevil

Thanks for your recent mail.

Hello!

My name is Sevil! I am 29 years old. I saw your profile and decided to write you because I like you very much. I am an interesting, beautiful, kind and single young lady. I want to find my love, my half and want to marry him. I am looking for a man who will fall in love with me and I will fall in love with him. I have never been married but I dream about it. I am fond of children and I dream about a happy family with the beloved man. I am interested in music, cooking, reading, traveling and others. I know English very good and can easily speak it because I work as a teacher of English at school.

If you are interested in me please write me on my e-mail: krasotishe99@yahoo.com



Please write me and I will send you my photos. I wait for your letter very much.
Sevil

Oh, Sevil, you don't know how long I've waited for someone like you to come into my life. I'll have to pass, however, as I would bet you are probably around 14 yrs. old.

Something else that raised my suspicions is the address the mail "came from".

Jack Thompson pncsm@bluedesign.com.py

"Jack Thompson"??? Sure your name isn't Ivan Ivanovitch?

One thing's for sure, you're certainly a sorry slavic spammin' sunuvabitch.

caitiff

From the Dictionary.com feed in the right-hand column

caitiff \KAY-tif\, noun, adjective:
1. cowardly and mean

noun:
1. a mean, cowardly person

Dictionary.com is a great website; I love their feed and when I need to look up the meaning of a word it's where I always go.

I also like how they give examples of a word, such as a snippet out of an article or book. Here's one they used for caitiff:

But there was no need: the towering threat and the flaming eye and the swift rush buffeted the caitiff away: he recoiled three steps, and nearly fell down.
-- Charles Reade, The Atlantic, 6/1/1943

caitliff = "cowardly and mean".

I really didn't need the example; I've "met" a million caitiffs in forums and message boards.

Debut: Ringtones

I like to make ringtones but the odd thing is I don't even have a cell phone. I'm not positive, but I think I'm the last person in the world to not own one. I was watching a National Geographic special the other day about some isolated tribe in the Amazon jungle and one of the bare-breasted girls had one up to her ear. (the ear without a bone in it)

Here's the first of many ringtones I've made that I have no use for. It's probably the most annoying and one I'd probably use.

Letters from Santa

At Letters from Santa, there are more than 20 printable letters from Santa Claus ready to instantly download and print. Great gift idea for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends and more. PDF version is free; editable Microsoft Word version is just $5.

Here's my fav: (click pic to enlarge)

Letters from Santa