Christmas 2012

[MisterNoisy]

Yes, yes it is. You should consider tipping your delivery person/people too.

I would, but they keep showing up when I'm at work.  I wonder if I could leave it at the apartment office.

[Paelos]

I've been doing Prime since around 2006. It's honestly the only way I shop for gifts anymore. There's just no reason to bother with the malls unless I have coupons.

If I just used it for Christmas alone, it would more than make up the fee in my shipping cost discounts.

[CaptainNapkin]

And you can get it even cheaper typically if you know someone with a school email address. Luckily my wife will probably be taking classes long after I'm dead. I think years ago I got my first year for free with the purchase of a game... Or maybe I bought 2 copies of the game and got it free... Or the game was free with a year of Prime. Either way there's always a deal on the sub to be had if you have patience to wait for it.

Like others I couldn't live without it at this point. First thing I do after a search is to click the "Prime Eligible" filter.

[Paelos]

First thing I do after a search is to click the "Prime Eligible" filter.

So true.

[Merusk]

Company gift came today.  Last year was a Kindle, this year it's a Zii Sound D3x

Now if only I owned a single Bluetooth device.

[Evildrider]

Company gift came today.  Last year was a Kindle, this year it's a Zii Sound D3x

Now if only I owned a single Bluetooth device.

Ask for a gift receipt!

I bought my Secret Santa a Tom Baker Doctor Who scarf this year.

[Trippy]

Company gift came today.  Last year was a Kindle, this year it's a Zii Sound D3x

Now if only I owned a single Bluetooth device.

Plug a device into it.

[Hawkbit]

That's pretty nifty.  We are looking at something kinda like that for our living room to interface with the iPhone/Rdio.

The wife got her bonus this year already: an email that said they're not giving out bonuses.  First year in 10 years as a lawyer she's not getting a bonus, which is pretty fucked up.  Not that we ever rely on them, but she usually gets a couple k to throw around at Christmas.  Hell, even as a law clerk she was getting $500.  She's pretty bummed right now.

Sad part is that their business nearly doubled this year. 

It's not really dampening our spirits though, maybe just a few less presents this year.  God bless us everyone, and all that jazz.

[Tairnyn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQXuazYI_YU

[Merusk]

Company gift came today.  Last year was a Kindle, this year it's a Zii Sound D3x

Now if only I owned a single Bluetooth device.

Plug a device into it.

Brilliant, it doesn't say anything about that on the box and I hadn't read the online reviews.   Gave it to the wife anyway. I have an iHome at work for radio & ipod and she wanted speakers for her iPod at the house. Win!

[Ghambit]

Just got back from Golfsmith.  If you've got a golfer who pretty much has everything, they've got a SnakeEyes utility club that's perfect for the putting fringes or shorter wedge shots.  Kinda between a putter and a PW but with the balance of a putter.  It's an awesome little club.  $70 retail but on sale for $30.

[Yegolev]

My wife is holding FarCry3 hostage until the Christianized solstice party.

[Paelos]

My wife is holding FarCry3 hostage until the Christianized solstice party.

Celebrate Jesus' birth by unleashing caged beasts on unsuspecting pirates!

[Sky]

I've been planning on rescheduling my birthday to a convenient solstice or equinox.

[Yegolev]

Don't do it, you only get one batch of presents.  One-and-a-half at best.

Wife says I'm getting "a lot" of games.  Sleeping Dogs, Risen 2, FarCry3, Dishonored.

[Sky]

Color me jealous of that haul. My suspicion is Rocksmith and maybe a couple strum along country songbooks for the neighborhood bonfires this spring.

[Ingmar]

Wouldn't it be more efficient to burn wood?

[MisterNoisy]

Don't do it, you only get one batch of presents.  One-and-a-half at best.

Wife says I'm getting "a lot" of games.  Sleeping Dogs, Risen 2, FarCry3, Dishonored.

Haven't played Risen 2, but the rest of those are top-notch.  Very cool.  :)

I have a sneaking suspicion that a large LEGO kit is on the way to me from my brother, but I'm not 100% sure.

Also, count my workgroup in the 'no bonus despite good departmental results' people.  Some deeply boneheaded decisions way above our level managed to fuck that one right in the ass.

[Sky]

Wouldn't it be more efficient to burn wood?

You suddenly appear at the entrance of the cave, all your equipment is gone, including your clothes.

[Ingmar]

Wouldn't it be more efficient to burn wood?

You suddenly appear at the entrance of the cave, all your equipment is gone, including your clothes.

[Azazel]

Happy Festivus, Guys and Girls!

Have a good one!

[lamaros]

Ho Ho Ho y'all.

[calapine]

Merry Christmas everyone!  

Christkind brought a skirt, a tea-cup with matching tea-sieve, Darjeeling SFTGFOP I first flush, a huge! candle, two pictures frames from the 1900s, a marzipan angel and a hot water bottle in a felt-cosy (with an elephant on it).

Now off to bed hugging my teddybear and the hot water bottle.

[jakonovski]

Merii Kurisumasu!

Things are pretty much done on this side of the world. Notable presents include a new wallet (real leather!) from the SO and a sick alarm clock radio projector thing from my parents. Ate a lot and drank a bit too much wine. Waited 20 minutes for a taxi in -10C wearing shoes with shitty thin soles, freezing my toes like a boss. Back home now, surfing the net and sipping coffee with the SO.






 

[ghost]

Merry Christmas everyone.   

[apocrypha]

Hap]y christmas folks, have a good one and be lovely to each other!

[Nebu]

Happy Holidays!

Thanks for another year of education, information, and endless distraction. 

[Chimpy]

Merry Christmas to all of the people who celebrate it and to everyone else, Happy <insert holiday here>.

[Surlyboi]

The boys of the NYPD choir were singing, "Galway Bay" and the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day...

Happy whatever the fuck you guys celebrate. I'm halfway through the second bottle of sake from the in-laws. They think I'm a drunk or something. This has been a really good year for me and I hope you all have at least half as good a 2013.

[Rasix]

This has been a really good year for me and I hope you all have at least half as good a 2013.

Can't complain here. 

Merry Christmas, all. 

Off to my parents tomorrow, where "Spoil-a-thon 2012" continues.  He's a great kid, though, and likely our only.  We really didn't buy him much, but our relatives are going bonkers.

[Evildrider]

Merry Christmas everyone. 

[DraconianOne]

Champagne for breakfast - is that wrong? 


Nadolig Lllawen i chi

[Quinton]

Happy Christmas, Merry Holidays, and Joyous Festivus to all you F13'ers.

Also, courtesy of a friend of mine, Seasons Greetings from the Weyland-Yutani Corporation:

Twelve dropships dropping,
eleven Hudsons freaking,
ten Gormans failing,
nine aliens shrieking,
eight facehuggers hugging,
seven rifles blasting,
six grenade launchers...

...WIERZBOWSKI!...

Four power loaders,
three sentry guns,
two halves of Bishop,
and metal grinding in the APC!

My sister reports that my niece and nephew were most excited by the presents I sent when they were placed under the tree, exclaiming that they sounded like LEGOs.  I told her to be sure to let them know that some breakfast cereals sound extremely similar and that they should not get their hopes up. ^^

[Hawkbit]

It wouldn't be Christmas Eve without waking up at 1am to the sound of my daughter hurling.  Yay Christmas!

[Mosesandstick]

Merry Christmas f13, thanks for keeping me sane!