My Christmas Playlist

 I've started listening to my Christmas playlist. A couple of years ago I searched out versions I liked of Christmas songs I like. For most of them, I bought the tracks from Amazon Music and downloaded them to my computer. So I have a file of 51 mp3 files and I just go there and click "Play All." The titles are sorted alphabetically, so usually that's how I listen to them. Here's the list:

1. Adeste Fideles (Latin)—Vienna Boys’ Choir
2. Adeste Fideles (English)—Londonderry Singers
3. All I Want for Christmas Is You—Mariah Carey
4. Angels from the Realms of Glory—Stephanie Hall Singers & the London Fox Players
5. Angels We Have Heard on High—Londonderry Singers
6. Away In a Manger—Joan Baez
7. Boar's Head Carol, The—The Robert de Cormier Singers and Ensemble
8. Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light—Not sure
9. Carol of the Bells (Choral)—Not sure
10. Christmas Song, The—Nat King Cole
11. Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental)—Vince Guaraldi Trio
12. Christmas Time Is Here (Vocal) —Vince Guaraldi Trio
13. Coventry Carol—Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles
14. Ding Dong Merrily on High—The Sixteen and Harry Christophers
15. Do You Hear What I Hear?—Bing Crosby
16. Ere Zij God—Dennie Christian
17. Feliz Navidad—José Feliciano
18. First Nowell, The—The Robert de Cormier Singers and Ensemble
19. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen—Londonderry Singers
20. Good King Wenceslas—Huddersfield Choral Society
21. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas—Judy Garland
22. Here We Come A-Wassailing—The Merrywood Singers
23. Holly and the Ivy, The—Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
24. Holly Jolly Christmas, A—Burl Ives
25. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day—Harry Belafonte
26. I Saw Three Ships—Ambrosian Singers
27. I Wonder as I Wander—Joan Baez
28. I'll Be Home for Christmas—Bing Crosby w/John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra 
29. In the Bleak Midwinter—Susan Boyle
30. Jesous Ahatonhia—Carolyn Sinclair
31. Jingle Bells—The Ray Conniff Singers
32. Joy to the World—Eugene Ormandy
33. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow—Dean Martin
34. Linus And Lucy—Vince Guaraldi Trio
35. Little Drummer Boy, The—The Harry Simeone Choir
36. Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming—Apollo’s Fire & Jeannette Sorrel
37. Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord—Boney M.
38. Mary's Boy Child—Harry Belafonte
39. O Holy Night—Samuel Ramsey
40. O Tannenbaum—Aeolian Kammerchor
41. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree—Brenda Lee
42. Silent Night, Holy Night—Julie Andrews
43. Silver Bells—Johnny Mathis
44. Sleigh Ride (Instrumental)—The Boston Pops Orchestra
45. Sleigh Ride (Vocal)—Johnny Mathis
46. Still, Still, Still—Libera 
47. We Three Kings—The Irish Tenors
48. What Child is This (Greensleeves)—Johnny Mathis
49. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks—Ambrosian Singers
50. White Christmas—Bing Crosby
51. Winter Wonderland—Frank Sinatra

Pains and tweets

Still no second flood—hooray.

Yesterday I received a package from Amazon. It's a cushion I ordered to sit on, specially designed to alleviate and prevent tailbone pain. I sit so much for work and leisure that I was starting to have that—a real pain in the a**, har har. The cushion has that little notch cut out so that when you sit on it, your tailbone is above empty space and so has no pressure to make it start aching. I don't find these kinds of cushions attractive. That little cutout notch seems to announce, "Here's where your butt crack goes," which I feel is ungenteel. But comfort before fashion for me. It also acts as kind of a booster seat and puts me at a better angle to my keyboard, I think, So, all kinds of advantages.

Now I'm going to listen to my favorite podcast, The Rest Is History. I like the banter of the two British hosts, as well as hearing about their topics. They also each have a Twitter account and the show itself has a Twitter account, so I re-opened my Twitter account after having shut it down a few years ago. Twitter can become a depressing place. But I just follow these guys and their show and a few family members.