Well...
I normally put it up 12 days before...
and take down the tree and decos. no later than the 12th day after (It is REALLY bad luck leaving it up past that...)
But I could use the color about the place...It would cheer me up with the rainy grey weather we have been having...give me the gumption to start baking christmas goodies...early..
and due to my work...I don't want to do it during work days, nor put the tree up last minute...
Also due to the nature of my work, where I live, etc...
I am not bombarded with X-mas like everyone else...
I haven't heard or seen anything X-mas-sy at all....
And I won't until I put on some classic songs, and the decos up.
I lead a sheltered life from the vagaries and madness of humanity
The joys of rural life.

(I am fortunate this year, I have Christmas Eve day, Christmas day , Boxing Day, and the day after Boxing Day, ...off ...to boot ...I also have New years Eve day and the 1st day of the new year off as well..and paid too....quite happy about that)

So I would rather do the decos. and tree now, and focus on doing Christmas dinner instead of both.
(sadly my lady won't be joining me this holiday...easter she is coming...so it will be a huge variety of my home cooking and baking filling the table for ...me....I'm afraid...but...it won't get wasted ...just turned into dinners for work...)

The pup and cat always look forward to x-mas...
they always get a once a year dinner I specially make for them,
and of course their stockings full of toys and treats...they can't wait for.

and this year ...
I do hope the snow comes ....even for a day or two AT Christmas...just deep enough to go and take the dog tobogganing down my hills here...
I would take the cat...but he likes to come and play a "supporting" role and comes down to watch and get pets at the bottom of the hill ...(He does tend to meow a lot and chase the sled ....I think he is concerned for my safety ..doesn't want my "can-opener" hand to get hurt..hahahaha)

Holy Blue Booties of Beelzebub!

I have noticed the last day or so...a few more folks as "guests" floating around our forum lately...
But I had NO idea we had so many freakin' people ghosting through our forum...

Geez people...
just get a username and come join the madness...
even if it is just to say "Fizzlefarts" for godssake ...
Its spookin' me out...
quasi-disembodied forum spectres...
hm..
Hey Dave!
perhaps all these "folks" floatin' through our forum lately are actually your space invading aliens ...checkin' the forum out...
you always keep saying they are coming..
perhaps they are already here and like TMO so much they are ghosting through this place...
geez...though...get some usernames...
and say something...
space aliens I can handle...
"guest" - stalking space aliens ...freak me out...

anyway...where was I...
oh yeah...
It has been a couple years since I bothered to look ...since the stats hadn't changed in 7 years...now...

the last time I looked was 2016 I think, and the largest number of people online at once was back in something - something - something 2011 (can't recall the exact date...I ain't freakin' Rain Man...)

and I literally just took a look now at our front page of TMO at the bottom
((since it was kinda weird that we currently have a plethora (love "plethora" it is like sex for the tongue to say that word...))
and..
crimminy jimsus!

" Most users ever online was 14,420, 11-26-18 at 01:06 AM "

WTF

what is going on here?
Has some tabloid said Beiber was sighted here?
WTF is going on...

I mean ...right now even...we have 5000+ people wandering around here...
what the hell is going on...

Is there some sort of contest to find the hidden phrase buried in a post here?

Yikes, your observation really suggests an alien invasion in progress!
Or maybe a feast of robots of some kind, an AI conglomeration?

These 'ghosts' are like neutrinos; observable only indirectly and not reacting with ordinary matter...

hahahahahahaha....
ah...
that was a gud 'un juice...

hm...you may be right with the bots...
THAT strikes me as more likely than aliens...or humans coming here...for that matter...
perhaps it is alien robots?
(trying to humor Dave here...)

Actually ..
I sincerely doubt that there ARE that many sentient humans on the planet...and ALL congregating here???

yup...spectral ghostie bots...

Bet its those Micronesians...those itsy bitsy tiny ones ...Dave is always saying have gotten inside and taken over his computer...()

MY GAWD JUICE!
you may be more right than you know...
Finally we may have first contact with a sentient AI that has sent an armada of bots to come and "ghost" us and play "catch-up" and read every single post since the dawn of TMO!

You know what this means Juice?!?!?!?!?

The first sentient AI is keen on Maemo!

Hm.....
Naw....
a sentient AI would have at least would have finished reading the whole place by now...
and given itself / herself / himself / themselves a username by now...and be chatting us all up....
My money is on a sentient AI giving itself a username here...like...
"Mr. Fluffy Pantaloons" ...
or something to the effect.

I do think that you are on to something though Juice....
I think there is a sinister reason ...
Bots...
thousands and thousands of bots ...
Tens of thousands frankly...
(according to the front page of TMO...)
All here...
gleaning and collecting ...

Don't be surprised if a forum and series of OS's pop up shortly on a new site...
Devoted to the "Waemo" , "Blaemo!" , "Waewo", or (even less creatively...) the new "Omeam" ...OS ...and website...
all with a striking similarity to this place and what we use and love...

Hm...
I'd sign up!


Sounds like an original idea to me

Ok....guys got an idea...
I'm callin' the ones currently here ...just in this thread.....
Out.

I SEE YOU THERE...
you 26...erp ...29... odd "guest" ghost-people / bots / what-have-yous !
Hell
At "this " exact moment there are almost 10 000 "guests site wide...
I can't remember the last time we crested 500 guests...
WTF
come on...some one pipe up ...
we're on to you ...

You can't see who is all here...being unregistered "guests"
But we see your numbers...and of course we see quite plainly those registered folks here....

Fess up!
What is the ulterior motive for so many of you!
Dave needs to know...

He gets anxious when it is possible it could be aliens...
So pipe up ...and tel us...
before his seizures start again..

Hm...
(I have an idea guys)

Ok....
for a limited time only ....
this next hour ...
for the next 10 000 "guests that sign up at TMO...
we are lowering the administration fees to only a dollar US ...per person...
Just sign up now ...
and private message me with your financial particulars ...
and I will wave my magic wand and expedite all the paperwork in a blink...
and voila!
you will be an official Newmo(tm)!

I thougt it was pichlo going full F5 crazy about THE tree

Has that been ruled out?

Strange waves found: Danger Alart!
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/s...earth-geology/

You know, with the observation of all these "guests" you might have solved the Fermi paradox!

Love good ol' Fermi...
actually...
I enjoy some of the youtube animated explanations of possible Fermi hypothesis....hypothesi ?
They give me a chuckle ...

as we all write on this and other related topic ...
while 20 of our "guests" read on...

And yes...Dave...
I have been keeping abreast of these "waves" ....odd eh?
Lets for now just pin it down to a fevered dream that the Earth is having while dealing with the changing planetary conditions...
Goodness knows it will get weirder ...and worse..

well...out here on the coast ...even though I am on a small island protected between the mainland continent and bigger Vancouver Island ..from seismic and tsunami threat...
It is always wise to keep one eye open...

So yup...
anything that happens seismically ...anywhere...is of interest to folks here...
and anything happening in the Pacific ...mainly...or anywhere else in global waters ...is also of particular scrutiny by folks out here...