The Geekiest Christmas Ever
I merely mention apparatus to my brother and it appears!
Now I can be visible to others who are willing to plunk down $50 at Circuit City for one of these babies. I am hoping that my sister in Singapore will jump on the Skype bandwagon and then we can show each other our latest projects...wait a minute, we already do that...uh, but we can talk to each other around the world for nuthin'. Now that's the bargain I want!
However, this means more cables, and earplugs and microphone cords and transformers and soon to be a more powerful power strip. Didn't I tell Santa NO to the Cord Clutter?
My laptop has more input thingys places than one could imagine.
The Evil Genius, wearing Dave's computer glasses. At last he has reached the age where one day you can see and the next day you are blind as a bat.
Cary came over for brunch with his new flame Cindy and there were many lovely moments that went unrecorded for the blog. What was I thinking? I will do better next time.
Lest we just sit and enjoy each other on Christmas Eve, I chose this time to ask for an installation of my dining room fixture, since it might require something unforeseen, and tricky.
Oh I know Dave and I could have done this ourselves, but there no doubt would have been a teeny moment of tension, disagreement, frustration, and lost cool, and did we need that on Christmas Eve? Nope. Much better for me to turn it completely over to the manly men, who work hard at making the simplest tasks look like rocket science.
Here, let me do it. NO I'll do it. No really, wait! Not a problem, I've got it. Shouldn't we turn off the power? No let's live dangerously. Here let me do it. And on and on.
Uh oh. The thing doesn't fit the thing. But that's OK we can MAKE IT fit.
Oh noooooooo!
But they did, and now it does. Phew!
One can never have too many lights. My dining room is now ready for my birthday party on Wednesday, where each of my guests, the Quilt World Glitterati, will have their very own spotlight.
Merry Christmas, and where are my expandomatic pants?
Merry Christmas, Mel!
ReplyDeleteMy Christmas present wasn't as geeky as yours but it was just as bad, a Craftsman rolling tool chest. And I love it! My DH doesn't even comment any more, he just shakes his head and buys whatever I tell him too.LOL I wish you and your delightful family a very Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteNext geeky gift: it's by Targus and about $40? It's a fan pad for under your laptop that has about 8 USB connections around it.
ReplyDeleteAll those cords go into the pad, and only one goes into the computer. Much neater and nicer.
I've been looking at Skype... and with your sister in Singapore it should be perfect for you!!
Merry Christmas to you, and do tell where you can buy expandomatic pants. I'm gonna need em!!!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Melanie! I am glad to hear you had a good one and the added bonus of getting lighting put it as well. Very well done.
ReplyDeleteMy fellows are cleaning up the mess I made in making dinner right now as I type. We are on to dessert in a few minutes.
HAve a happy Birthday too!
Shawna from Yellowknife who is very excited about you coming to visit us, though I haven't figured out who many sleeps yet...I will have to do that soon!