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Here a song of my new E.P "just like a stone" Iet me know what you think?
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I never do these things, but because its Christmas what the heck. Passed on to me by Musicchick2.
Directions: Change all the answers so they apply to you. Then, send this to a whole bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person who sent it to you.
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrap, wrap, wrap. There is just no fun in opening a gift bag. Unless of course its for a young childs birthday (they dont care, they just want the gift)
2. Real tree or artificial? Normally real. But this year we dug out my bachelor days 6ft plastic tree. Kinda sad Charlie Brown looking thing but my girlfriend is awesome at decorating trees and it looks great. Hard to tell theres an ugly ass tree under all that decorating.
3. When do you put up the tree? Day after or around Thanksgiving. Helps us all get into the holiday spirit. Not that we need it when everything is already out in stores before Halloween. Friggin Walmart.
4. When do you take the tree down? New Years day or day after. Hung over as hell but we get it done because were sick and tired of staring at it by that time.
5. Do you like eggnog? Only with booze in it. But I must be honest, I have not had it in probably 15 years or so. Christ I'm old.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? A remote control black FireBird, yes the car from Smokey and the Bandit.
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, I have 2 which my girlfriend and I have been swapping out every year. Doesnt hurt to have more than one though. And baby Jesus doesnt go in till Christmas day.
8. Hardest person to buy for? When we draw names for Santa gifts with my girlfriends family. I dont know them all on a personal level that well so whomever I get is really hard to buy for.
9. Easiest person to buy for? The pets. Dog (Roxie), bird(Gizmo), fish (Fred, Goldie, Blackie, and two other poor guys with no names yet)
10. Worst Christmas gift ever received? Jumper cables. My then wife got them for me on our first Christmas. What the hell woman!
11. Mail or email Christmas card? None. Stopped sending them out when my family never sent me any. I used to send out about 40 to 50 a year. Hardly ever got one in return.
12. Favorite Christmas movie? National Lampoons Xmas Vacation (also my favorite movie of all time) I watch it at least 20 times throughout December then it goes back into storage for next year. I wore out my VHS tape but my girlfriend bought me the DVD for Xmas last year. (LOVE YOU BABY!)
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Throughout the year. Find good deals on things, throw them into the closet. But Im slacking this year, way behind.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Ummm not yet, but I do have a few things given to me from when I was married (3 years ago) still in the box. Now who could I give that remote control, arm chair hangy thingy too?
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Food and tons of it. Not pickey. But I did grow up with my grandmother always making a huge batch of chicken stew every year. Her dumplings were off the hook!
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Colored, but hmmmmm.....kinda depends on the decorations. Some decorations look better with all white lights. Depends on the decorations. We try to change things around every year.
17. Favorite Christmas song? "That Spirit of Christmas" Performed by Ray Charles. Its the song you hear playing when Clark (Christmas Vacation) is stuck in the attic and is watching old christmas video footage of his family. It almost makes me cry when I hear it. I am such a wimp.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay at home? Stay at home now, since Im not married. We only have to go over to my girlfriends parents house which is about a mile away. Thank you lord, go tell it on the mountain!
19. Can you name Santa's reindeer? Well there was that one that crapped on my windshield last year (Donner or Comet, or was that a teradactyl? too big to know for sure)
20. Do you have an angel on top or a star? Angel. Always an angel. There is a great story on how the angel ended up on top of the christmas tree but thats for another blog.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? The girlfriend and I like to open gifts on Christmas day morning which is also when my 2 boys open gifts. Means more to them when they see us open gifts as well. Especially when my youngest still believes. Of course though, if you dont believe, you dont get gifts from Santa. Which is why my oldest still believes as well. As I, even though he never got me my Evil Kneival Stunt Motorcycle when I was 5. Friggin bastard!
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Too much Christmas music waaaaaayyyyy to early. It gets old very fast. Way to many cheasy songs out there as well.
Free wallpaper for the taking. Happy Holidays Everyone!
The VOX crew just sent out a post reminding us all to VOTE FOR VOX at Japan's 12 Annual Web of the Year Honors. They also had a video clip showing us how to get through the site navigation because it was all in Japanese. I'm hoping that this Google Translated Link makes it a little easier as it translates most of the sites buttons. To vote for Vox scroll down to the very bottom of the page in the block to the right. It is suppose to be the Blog Services categorie but google translator doesn't work with it.
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Side bar widgets are finnaly here! Well, at least in beta mode anyway. We can now add widgets, but you can only add one at the moment. It's still a work in progress folks, give the poor folks at Vox a break. At least we have the power. (I feel like He-Dork) Think of all the creative widgets that you can place here. How about your favorite music, or recipes, news, or weather. Maybe your favorite Moo card of the day, or even your Food-Ku of the day or week. Be imaginative folks. Here is a good place to start in making your own widgets. http://www.widgetbox.com/
The only downside that I saw is that I don't have the power to place the widget where I want. If I choose to display my posted videos, photos, latest comments, etc etc, then my widget is left to the very bottom of the screen. Well by george, I'm a picky little nerd and I want mine at the top. (ummmm..hellooooo Vox) It would be nice if we could control the order in which our Side Bar apps were displayed. Perhaps somewhere in the Customize Your Side Bar application allow us to put them in the order that we wish. I had to turn all of my side bar apps off just so that my widget was on top. Not that anyone wants to listen to my geeky music. But you get the idea of personal widgets in your sidebars. What do you guys think? Below is the set of instructions on how to get personal widgets in your sidebars. The instructions come directly from team.vox posting. Of course if you need help, your vox team and your favorite neighborhood geek is always willing to help.
Widgets, We've Got Widgets
As we promised a few weeks ago, everyone can now put widgets in posts! To add a widget to a post, from the Compose page just click on the Embed button and paste your code in the box that pops up. This button has been in beta for a while now, but now it will appear for everyone to use.
We know you want a widget to your sidebar too, so you can now do that in beta. To add it, be sure you're opted in as a beta tester and head to the Design tab and click on "Customize your sidebars". Check the box next to "Embed" and click on the configure link to add the code and optional title for your widget. For now you can only embed one widget in your sidebar and if it's wider than 160 pixels, it might look all wonky or just not display at all.
Here's a track off our second album.
