So? What'd ya get?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I got

A Voodoo 3000 vid card*
A SoundBlaster Platinum Sound Card*
A 6 speaker sound system for my computer*

*All of which woke my neighbors up at midnight by me having the speakers work at full blast while testing Quake 3 Arena. Get this…my elderly next door neighbor called the cops saying he could hear someone “shooting off a big Machine gun”. Now that is what I call BIG SOUND

A copy of Snow Crash
A Sega Dreamcast
A DVD of Christmas Vacation
A DVD of American Pie
A gift certificate for a oil change
A Big Bad Voodoo Daddy t shirt
2 Cds (Q Tip and Propellerheads)
A good haul this year (quite surprising really…everybody in my family went overboard, myself included)

Tyler Durden: You are not your job. You are not the money in your bank account. You are not the car you drive. You are not how much money is in your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

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Let’s see, there was getting to spend Christmas with my entire family for the first time in thirteen years…

Other than that,
A bottle of Moet Chandon and two glasses from my brother
$50 from my uncle
$100 from mom and dad
a tub of Cadburys drinking chocolate from my best friend
and, of course, the christmas nookie from hubby and vice versa, which I liked better than anything

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I got some great stuff this year:

One of the Andy Goldsworthy books I’ve been asking for since I found out about him. And it was even better than I thought it would be. Imagine a modern art work that is lines of snow on an ancient oak tree. Or a pile of sand that looks like a giant snake - snaking through the egyptian room at the british musuem. Check him out: http://cgee.hamline.edu/see/goldsworthy/see_an_andy.html

And my cousins got me some guest towels that look like they were designed for my guest bathroom. And they’ve never even been over!

I also got the de rigueur (sp?) dragon.
And one of my gifts is still somewhere in Russia.

As a gift to myself, I finally installed my scanner. Here is the first picture I scanned:

http://www.flash.net/~zyada/zyada_aus99.JPG

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From Lion,
A white lace nighty with matching panties (woo hoo), 2 rings, a watch, a gold chain, ear rings ( Lion always gets me stuff I like, maybe thats because I shop for it, wrap it, and act surprised when I open it)

From Lion’s uncle
a knife set for my kitchen

From Son, $ 50.00

From one aunt, some homemade salsa that will burn the skin off your tounge,

from another, silverware, oranges, candy and hot chocolate mix

yet another aunt- a kitchen set with wooden utensiles and loads of other stuff

from my best friend, a huge raspberry candle, a set of 3 painted candles , a wearable art craft kit with the video instructions,

from my friends granddaughters, who I love, 2
angel statues with robes in the colors of their birtstones

From my cousin, a lottery ticket that didn’t win squat, ah well he tried.

Not a bad haul if I do say so myself

Ayesha - Lioness

There are two solutions to every problem : the wrong one, and mine
(Thomas A. Edison)

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The instructors at my dojo got me a Sith Droid Attack Game (for ages 6 and up, so yes I qualify ;)). This thing tracks your lightsaber using infrared and then fires a foam disk in your general direction which you have to deflect with the lightsaber. The thing disks come out with a very high velocity, and frankly I don’t see it being much fun to most people since almost everybody here cannot block more than 1 or 2 disks out of 12 (I can block about 6 to 8 out of 12 which will only help to reinforce my dojo nickname of “jedi”). I want to open it up and see if I can make it fire more quickly though. Currently it waits a good few seconds before firing each disk but I would like a more semi-continous stream of disks.

Other than that:

two new pants
two new shirts
a new wallet
a couple of books
a couple of movies

“Glitch … Window, large icons.” - Bob the Guardian