Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread December 1st through December 31st 2025

[nhmemorymaker]

I'd better hurry up and get a new laptop.
This one is doing crazy things, like copy and paste often doesn't work.

And now after I uploaded the photo, the laptop without me doing anything made it my screen background.
I knew which laptop I wanted but they discontinued it the week before I tried to buy it.

Then I thought as it was so close to Christmas and all that busyness I'd leave it til after New Years Day to start looking again for a laptop that has the features I need.

Mine is doing crazy as well.
Yahoo keeps taking over my Chrome search engine. And then when I try to reset back to Chrome, something always happens. Right now, I "cannot connect to camera or microphone"(I do us FB video calling quite a bit).
AND I think it screwed up whatever is needed to do financial transactions. I was trying to pay a Verizon bill through their customer service and it would not let me complete the transaction...even with higher level customer support it would just not take my data .
So, I just gotta get a new one.

 

[killarney rose]

well how special for you!! Are your family and guests coming from far distances...??? The chaos sounds great!

I have always felt that Christmas falling on a Thursday is the BEST day of the week for the holiday.
The Friday after is always an extra holiday for most working folks. AND then the weekend...
and then only 3 days of work the following week!

My 2 sons and their families. My daughter lives next door. Sons live in the same city. It’s about a 7 hour drive. I like to call it happy chaos. I spent this past week getting the house in order, only to have it implode upon itself by the time everyone arrives and unloads their vehicle. I love it.

 

[Dotta]

wow....ha ha !! I had forgotten just how smooth a talker he was........
And a story teller!!! what a nice little flash back. thanks for finding and posting...'
He did define the 80s in America, thats for sure.

A man with class and charm.
President Reagan was admired in my country.
He was one of the symbols of political changes in this part of Europe.

"Tear Down This Wall" speech
(to dismantle the Berlin Wall)
at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin
is remembered

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Hi @nhmemorymaker


I got a bit confused because I've actually bought two laptops over the past around 8 years.
I started to think that this was the older one, but I just checked my receipt and I only bought this one in November 2024.
The computers are both the same model.

With the other one the hinge broke, but it still kept working so I've been using both of them.

This one only had a 12 month warrenty so I'm just a month out of warranty.

I think I might have to end up reinstalling windows. That could possibly fix what's wrong.
Sometimes it's fine.

I've never had a laptop that had problems after only 12 months.

Maybe it needs cleaning inside, I think they use canned air.

I could pay sometime to do that I suppose, it's just that I've always done my own fixing.
But not the physical part like opening it up.

Sorry I don't know the current laptops not since they all seem to have Co Pilot and I'm wary of it.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Haha the reason I felt like I'd been using this laptop for years it's because it's the same as my old one.
Or this last 12 months lasted forever. That actually could be true. At times it did feel like that.

Or I'm going round the bend

 

[TootsieFootsie]

This little guy isn't so scary, he's actually cute

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Grrr computers.
I was trying to fill out a form but the very end bit where you press enter wasn't to be found.
My laptop refused to go full screen which I thought might let me see the whole form.

I think the end of the form was hidden under my task bar and it's so long I've forgotten how to hide the task bar anyway.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

My laptop has to have a 15.6 inch screen, ITB, 16 GB Ram. and be around $800.
I want an Acer.

The only other ones that have what I want are over 1000 dollars.

Hopefully mine will come right if I give it a good talking to. That sometimes works for me.

I'm very tempted to use the whack whack method

 

[Dotta]

2025 was 'Time to Say Goodbye' to so many familiar faces

RIP to All.

But memories stay.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/13/world/gallery/people-we-lost-2025

 

[Mo Thuairim]

Oops wrong thread.

Since I'm here... on this day in 1848, gas lights were first installed at the White House (Polk administration) apparently.

 

[tricia]

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD
MONDAY DECEMBER 29TH 2025
​

Good Morning my fellow Websleuths members,
Can you believe we are starting a new year on Thursday? Rhetorical question.
Hey on this day in 1845 The United States annexes the Republic of Texas and admits it as the 28th state.As we say in Texas YEEHAA

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I feel a bit sad to say goodbye forever to 2025.

2025 will never come again unless one day there is time travel

I'm going to forgive 2025 for the bad times it provided and give it a hug and a kiss for all the good things it brought.

 

[tricia]

WHOOPSIE. SO SORRY I FORGOT. HERE YOU GO
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD
TUESDAY DECEMBER 30TH 2025​

1850 — California officially became the 31st U.S. state. Gold Rush dreams, lawless boomtowns, and the beginning of California chaos as we know it


1916 — The infamous Grigori Rasputin was murdered in Russia. Poisoned, shot, beaten, and dumped into a river—because apparently one method just wasn’t enough. One of history’s wildest deaths.


1941 — During World War II, Japanese forces captured Wake Island, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. A grim reminder of how quickly the war escalated in the Pacific.


1989 — Former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was executed just days after being overthrown, marking a dramatic end to one of Eastern Europe’s most brutal regimes.

1916 — Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was placed into permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New York. She spent over 26 years isolated because she wouldn’t stop cooking for people.
and finally

Weird folklore note — In several European traditions, December 30 was considered a “thin veil day”, when spirits were believed to wander before the New Year reset. People avoided mirrors, whistling at night, and — I swear this is real — counting their money.
That last fact is so dang weird. Do you believe spirits wander around watching you before the New Year?
That may explain why I keep misplacing things. It's these weird spirits who are driving me nuts. LOL.
Happy day before New Year's Eve, everyone.
Tricia

 

[detective.moon]

i didn’t know where to share this, so i thought this thread might be the place!

some (relatively! the individual cases are still very sad) positive news about my city today. this year there were 10 known deaths caused by violence in amsterdam, which is only half of last years number!

(if anyone is interested in the specific cases, this article in dutch describes each of them)

Minder moorden in de stad dan vorig jaar, politie spreekt van doorzettende daling

Minder moorden in de stad dan vorig jaar, politie spreekt van doorzettende daling

www.at5.nl

 

[TootsieFootsie]

A few minutes to midnight here.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I can hear music, well the beat, most likely from the pub.
2 minutes to go.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

We have hit midnight!

Happy New Year for those for whom it's midnight, or got there before us like New Zealand.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I might not have to buy a new computer.
Since I had a couple of clearing cookie sessions it seems to be working a lot better,

 

[nhmemorymaker]

We have hit midnight!

Happy New Year for those for whom it's midnight, or got there before us like New Zealand.

sooooo...16 hours ahead....
Are you still partyin' @TootsieFootsie or off to bed. ha.

I don't know if I am feeling hopeful about closing the door on 2025.
Or feeling fearful opening the door to 2026.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Nah I'm just here by myself.

No one in my family who live elsewhere is into ringing each other at midnight.

I used to do it but after quite a few grumpy "you woke me up" I eventually gave up.

My friend of a few years, asked me years ago do I do anything on New Year's Eve.

I said that my friend who has passed away and myself either spent the evening together, or the part heading up to midnight and if we couldn't be together in person we'd be on the phone for the countdown and to wish each other a happy new year.

My friend of a few years said I'm glad you don't do anything special for the night ? because he goes to bed early LOL

So I said Happy New Year to myself when it hit midnight

But I do miss the enthusiasm of my friend who passed away.
He made every day a holiday and every day fun.

Sometimes I think I'm living in a world full of misery guts and old fuddy duddy's