HAPPY FESTIVUS (for the rest of us) 2018!! :-) ;-) :-)

OK -- so technically Festivus isn't until next Sunday (23Dec2018) but also technically, the exact date of Festivus is *not* actually confined to any one single day, being perfectly correctly observable on *any* odd day of the year. :-)

[all the pertinent details/rules at this website: http://festivusweb.com/ ]

So's this year, I finally made my own 'tabletop sized' Festivus Pole, shown here with (a version of) the traditional Festivus meatloaf dinner. ;-) It (again, according to the rules set out on the above website) is made of genuine aluminum (with superior strength to weight ratio) and is in unpolished 'as found' condition. (just as if it had been freshly retrieved from the crawlspace, but in my case found laying around the shop in a bucketful of other odd bits of scrap metal) Its only "decoration" is an old yellow price tag (also pre-existing 'as found') which shows that somebody, sometime in the past, paid $2.39 for it at someplace called "STEWART BUILDING SUPPLY AND HARDWARE". (I have no idea what or where that might have been?)

Its 7/8" across and about 32" tall, I mounted it to a 6" wooden base (scrap from the trashcans at the shop) sanded up a little and sprayed with Rustoleum 'hammertone silver' paint which seems a nice match to the natural aluminum of the pole.

Since I'm not expecting any particular 'family gathering' to help me celebrate the holiday (thus the frozen meatloaf dinner) and I otherwise live alone but for the house-beast kitty, I'll refer my official "Feats of Strength" back to wrestling that ice cream freezer into/outta my truck by myself last week, and my "Airing of Grievances" to either scolding said kitty for constantly wanting to claw the back of my desk chair, or to Comcast/Xfinity TV/internet, because of their well known lousy 'customer service' (and/or marginal 'service' itself, depending on whether its raining or not) which I sadly don't really have another valid option but to have to pay for every month anyway... <groan> Both those 'grievance' options, of course, will be either not understood (he claws the d*mn chair nearly every day anyway, usually when he thinks its getting close to his dinnertime) or unheard (even if I called Comcast and complained, they don't give a sh*t...) but oh, well...

ALL IN THE SPIRIT OF FESTIVUS (for the rest of us)...? :-)

[and now...crap...what 'category' to pick for this post -- nothing seems quite right...??]

EDIT (23 Dec.): HAPPY FESTIVUS, CW friends!!! :-) :-) :-)

I've just added a couple pics showing my Festivus pole 'on display' by the window, [no need to put it *in* the window after all, plus it shows better with the curtain as background] AND the result of a seemingly successful 'kitchen experiment' which resulted with a *real-life* meatloaf to eat instead of the frozen dinner. :-) :-) :-)