1, 2, 3…snooze.

Today's Tids Issue 3,760

For Utter Relaxation:

Welcome to the most peaceful week of the year. It isn’t? Well it should be. Hell, it is so peaceful that I used to love working this week in an office barren of people and meetings. It was a time to get organized at a controlled pace. Of course, now, almost all of my weeks are peaceful. But, this is truly a week filled with satisfaction, and hopefully always with good  thoughts of a great Christmas just past. The schedules and timetables are over. So, here’s to everybody slowing down, letting unnecessary concerns lay dormant. Just think about how quiet it is up in that little workshop at the North Pole. And concentrate on feeling all the tension oozing away.

And, of course the Stock Markets are closed. So there are no worries there, today.

Some are calling this past weekend a Latke and Candy Cane convergence, when the great holidays for the Jews and Christians merged. Happy Holy Days to both.

Whatever happened to Charlotte Church? Maybe she’ll make a comeback on The Voice!

I often wonder what I will be like when I will grow up. Actually, I think feeling young is a good idea for a happy life as long as you find your mature self when makng key decisions.

I have finally figured out that waiting in lines is part of Christmas.

The Question:

What doe “Evoo” mean? Bonus: In the great old song “On top of Old Smoky”, what was old smoky covered with? And, what did the singer lose, and why?

The Headlines:

--Stock Markets Closed.

--Americans Ready To Shut Down Tension And Say Aaaaah!

--Israel Anger Grows Over US Support For UN resolution

--Music World Mourns Passing Of Super Star George Michael At 53.

--Russia Says They See No Terror Plot In Downing Of Airplane In Black Sea.

--QE II Missies Christmas Service For First Time; 90 Year Old Monarch Said To Have A Serious Cold.

--The Top 5 Sports Stories Of 2016 Are Cubs Win, Ali Death, Cleveland Cavs NBA Title, Deaths of Stars Arnie Palmer, Gordie Howe, Pat Summit and Crash of Brazilian Soccer Team.

--New Marist Poll Declares That Americans Think the Most Annoying Word Ever is “Whatever”.

It’s kind of ironic that all of those who insist in saying Happy Holidays are really wishing everybody a good Holy Day. Yes, the word derives from the old English “Halig Daeg or “Holy Day”. Some who think it is a nice inclusive secular greeting are probably basing that on the well-known myth that it comes from Happy Holly Day.

Who eats more organically than a hunter. With a gun. Talk about whole foods.

How long will it be until the wristwatch his the new buggy whip. Do I hear any offers for my Girard-Perregaux Breguet at around $495,000?

From what I hear around town and elsewhere, people are loving the upbeat and fun La La Land.

Trump could be that person living by Twitter who could die by Twitter.

Separated at Birth: NFL’s Roger Goodell and new Trump Spox Sean Spicer.

There ‘s a new TV program ready to debut called “Ransom”. I really don’t enjoy ransom episodes when the arise on other programs, so I will probably skip this one

Did you know that 1.2 million drones were sold this year, many around the Christmas sales season. An d tis is probaly just the beginning. Get ready to be bothered.

Most journalists today always precede any article on Trump with the phrase, “A deeply divided America…”, implying that America was completely homogeneous before the Trumpster. The reason Trump won was because of an Obama induced deeply divided America. Pure and simple.

By the way, I mentioned a few weeks back that all of this divisiveness is more than likely based on money like everything else in society. That there are huge amounts of people in the social services industry concerned about fading Government financial support. And now denizens from another industry built on tax funded largess, grants to College research, are making noise. But, they’ll make intellectual noise with complex white papers, and all of the uneducated deplorables will be doomed. Ouch! That’s scarier than a deal with the Russians.

Mac n’ Cheese is one of those dishes where an individual’s standard of excellence for the delicacy is based on his or her mother’s recipe.

The Answer:

I’m sure you all knew that Evoo means Extra Virgin Olive Oil! Bonus: “On top of Old Smoky, All covered with snow, I lost my true lover, for courtin’ to slow. It’s amazing how you can remember those words, mostly sung years ago after 47 beers in the College fraternity basement bar, hidden from authorities!

Have a peaceful week, everybody! There’s a chance you will be Tidless, tomorrow, But as all of you who have been with this mess for years know, The Tidster finds a way. Hey, wait a minute, a Tidless tomorrow would really be peaceful!

Should I use an exclamation point when I suggest peacefulness?