Old Man

Can you list five artists whose names start with J that have recorded christmas songs? Jackson 5: This iconic group released several Christmas albums and singles, including the popular "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town." Jewel: This singer-songwriter has released several Christmas albums, including "Joy: A Holiday Collection" and "Let It Snow." Johnny Mathis: This legendary singer has released several Christmas albums, including "Merry Christmas" and "It's Christmas Time." José Feliciano: This Puerto Rican singer is best known for his version of "Feliz Navidad," which has become a Christmas staple. Joni Mitchell: This Canadian singer-songwriter has released several Christmas albums, including "Songs for Christmas" and "Joni Mitchell: The Complete Christmas Music." (Courtesy of Google Bard AI.)

I like this new BBC. I'll have to watch it more often.

The biggest healing change in 5e (for me, having skipped 3e and 4e) that enables this is the short rest healing mechanic. This approximately doubles a character's hit points for a given session. Couple that with the fact that damage generally doesn't affect characters until they reach 0HP and you have a pretty cinematic game going. That said you'd still have to tune the adversaries some. In the 5e campaign I played, my paladin often wound up spending combats running around playing tag with his lay on hands.

Inigo and Westley versus Legolas: Who wins?

My bad. I should have typed "mostly dead".

Faramir who spent most of ROTK dead, IIRC.

"Up on the Housetop" is a Christmas song written by Benjamin Hanby in 1864.[1][2] It has been recorded by a multitude of singers, most notably Gene Autry in 1953.

The phytoplankton would like a word.

I’m having a really hard time thinking of MCU roles that could have fit Keanu.

The "killed" mechanic actually tracks with the canon--Frodo got envenomated, attacked by a kraken, and stabbed twice, once by a Nazgul. Not to mention Gandalf's fatal Balrog brawl. Wait--is LOTR actually a Marvel comic?

I lived through this a few years ago. Honestly there wasn't much time for anarchy to break out even though everyone got the same text message. Yeah there were some people speeding around in their cars and/or shoving their children into storm drains. And there were some people who quit their jobs or (supposedly) had sex with people they shouldn't have. But 20-30 minutes is not much time to get any real anarching done. Then again, I'm in the civilized state--perhaps I am underestimating the latent savagery of mainland Ur Murrikans.

He's not (just) a jackass. He's holding these positions open so Trump can immediately fill them with loyalists when he returns to the White House. Also note that I didn't say anything about winning elections there.

QBs can play on high ankle sprains... barely. Mahomes did it in the playoffs, with an entire roll of tape and probably some thermonuclear painkillers. QBs do have to push off their right foot but they don't have to run and cut and wrestle 350-pound ogres like the other players do. That said, TLaw should take at least a couple of weeks off. The Jags still have a one game lead in the division. Cleveland is beatable and I wouldn't play an injured QB against Baltimore.

Accessory to insurrection? Destruction of evidence?

Disney - "Kris Kringle" by Jiminy Cricket - 1958 Napalm Records - "Krampus" by Feuerschwanz - 2021

NO NOT TREVOR

A swimming pool in a football stadium? Okay.

Because the credit card company implemented two factor authentication and they're sending the text messages to the phone number from 18 years ago. Which was a landline.

Threes. Bad things happen in threes. It's really discouraging when that fourth bad thing happens.

The Chiefs strike me as an extremely distracted team. Having Nagy as offensive "coordinator" probably isn't helping either.

There's something about the holidays that causes major appliances to commit suicide. I haven't lost any appliances yet but I'll be lucky if my car repair bill for this month is less than $2k.

I wound up investing in internet-connected smoke alarms which, while ridiculous, does mean I get a nice text alert on my phone when batteries are at death's door, as opposed to the midnight chirps. I suppose it would also tell me if my house was burning down when I wasn't there. I'm not sure how useful that is. Although come to think of it I should set it to send those messages to my kids' phones, they might not notice the house is on fire otherwise.

How on earth do you get smoke alarm batteries to last 12 years? Mine last, like, two. Sorry about your battery issues. I'd offer to give you a jump if I were on the same landmass as you, but...