Merry Christmas 2012 !

[mongers]

The youngest 1st grader niece got the only thing she begged, pleaded, told her friends and teachers and anyone who would listen, wrote to Santa multiple times, and held the Elf on the Shelf hostage in a 4 hour standoff with Mommy last week for:  a drum set. 
A real one, too.  Kettle, bass, snare, two tom-toms, a high hat and cymbal.

She and her older 3rd grade sister, the guitarist, were already working on White Stripes tunes by the afternoon.

[sbr]

The youngest 1st grader niece got the only thing she begged, pleaded, told her friends and teachers and anyone who would listen, wrote to Santa multiple times, and held the Elf on the Shelf hostage in a 4 hour standoff with Mommy last week for:  a drum set. 
A real one, too.  Kettle, bass, snare, two tom-toms, a high hat and cymbal.

She and her older 3rd grade sister, the guitarist, were already working on White Stripes tunes by the afternoon.

I don't remember if I have told this story here before.  My dad's sister bought me a drum set when I was 5-6; it was a cheap Mickey Mouse one but it made some good noise.  After I outgrew/lost interest in it my dad put it in the attic for close to 10 years until her first kid was the same age and then he gave it back.  The look on her face that Christmas was one of the funnier things I have seen.

[Barrister]

The one thing Timmy asked for was "cars", and lo and behold, he got more Hot Wheels than you can shake a stick at.

[Barrister]

And I generally got very few presents - wife and I are saving for a big trip.

But from my in-laws, I was very touched to get - hockey skates.  I haven't had a pair for 20-30 years.

[derspiess]

Now that you've mentioned it, I'll have to get one, iirc there's also now a useful release of RISC OS for it.   

Set up my SD card last night.  Hooked up a USB keyboard and mouse to it a few minutes ago, plugged an ethernet cable into it, and have it hooked into the HDMI port on my kid's 22" TV.  Powering it with the USB port on the TV & am making this post now on it via Chromium

[Sheilbh]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[derspiess]

My brother's mother in law really does not like him.  She gave him a $50 gift card to a local restaurant with stern instructions to use it to take her daughter to dinner for her birthday.  She also got him a set of three ornaments he has no use for.

She gave her other son in law an iPad mini