Hello, ho, ho! Here's an important message from Network Rail for anyone who's travelling by train this Christmas and New Year.

We'll be working over the festive period to make improvements to the railway. Most of the network remains open, but some train services will be affected from Sunday the 25th of December until Monday the 2nd of January.

So, to keep your festive plans on track, please check before you travel at nationalrail.co.uk slash Christmas.

My parents unintentionally gave Ellie the creepiest gift ever, and then Jeff accidentally traumatized her with it.

We watched a really weird but trending documentary this week in called House of Hammer.

We've got some thoughts to tell you about that, and I missed a really important message from my fertility specialist office

because I forgot the password to the portal.

All that and more on today's show.

You are an outsider, living in gratitude, finding the positive in every experience, and helping other people do the same.

Welcome to the Upside.

Update.

With Kelly and Jeff.

If this is your first episode of the Upside, welcome.

I'm going to give in your before. Welcome back.

Today is Tuesday, September 6. My name is Jeff Dollar.

Today I am grateful for leaf blowers because I get a little yard work over the long weekend.

And when I was all done, I just used the leaf blower to blow up the crumbs. It was great.

I wish I think that I'm going to start using the leaf blower to like blow out the kitchen.

But I don't think you can use it inside because it'll just curl everything up. It'll just go all over the house.

Because in my mind, I know there's like dust busters, but dust busters always last like five seconds.

I just need something to curl all the crumbs.

We have hardwoods in our kitchen, dining area, and it's such a high traffic area.

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