New Toys!

[Merusk]

Well it's the Christmas season.  (And Hanukkah in a week, but I'm tired of being PC and saying "holiday") Time for office parties, door prizes and gifts from family that we can all ooh and ah about. Share with the class the nifty gadget you got, or are going to give this year.

Myself, the wife won an I-Pod Nano at my old job's holiday party last night.  I'm all flushed in anticipation of playing around with it at the new job since they won't let me play or rip CDs on my PC.  Glee.

We're giving the son a little non-motorized ride-in car for his birthday/ x-mas (Sucks to be born on the 24th.) which is about as gadgety as we're giving this year.

[Miasma]

The only gadget I think I might pick up is a nice universal remote.  Or maybe even the model above it if I can find a deal:


At my office party there were several nanos given out, a gps system, one of those absurd robots that vacuum floors and a PSP giga pack.  Who won the PSP?  In a tech company where 80% of the people would love to have won it the secretarial admin for the salespeople got it.  She had no idea what even it was, bah!

[Xanthippe]

I think my husband bought me a vaccuum cleaner.

I wish it was a rolling pin instead.  I can think of a really good use for that.

[Righ]

That's so old hat. I suggest you get yourself this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7547408822&category=11751

[Margalis]

That's always a great gift for women - housework enablers.

I bought myself a new video card that I can't get to work. Merry Christmas. Wait, we're supposed to get gifts for other people too?

[MrHat]

Getting the fiancee a stand by golden oldie (hour spa treatment).  And that one bridge game.

Expecting to receive some books (Dune Series + Ender's Game series) and probably a griddle.

It's small because we're getting that 60" SXRD in January.

[Strazos]

I am officially not participating in the holidays this year, because I'd rather not be broke and unemployed.

[Yegolev]

I just know that I am getting the Final Fantasy XII demo.  And Dragon Warrior VIII as a bonus on the disk, sweet.  I asked for nothing at first, but no one was going for that, so I set up a wishlist on Amazon and told the older set that I needed clothes.  Let the chips fall where they may.  I hope I didn't forget what was on my wishlist and buy something for myself that I am also getting.

Son is getting a footpowered car, a ginormous playhouse, and other stuff I just don't remember because I have not assembled it.

Wife is getting Firefly in a Box, some Choxie (go to Target) and a T-shirt which is pretty cool so don't say anything.  The rest of the year she gets to malign my checking account, anyway.

From her parents, my wife is also getting a vacuum cleaner.  This one, however, is a robotic vacuum cleaner.  I'm George Fucking Jetson, bitches.

[Rasix]

I think my husband bought me a vaccuum cleaner.

Depending on the vaccuum, I'd be thrilled.  But, I've already got a Dyson Animal. It kicks major ass. 

Got the wife an Ipod Nano.  I'm getting mostly tennis gear (cheaper)  because I'll be getting a new computer soon after the holidays.

[HaemishM]

I'd tell you what I'm getting my wife, but since she reads these forums, I'm not going to spoil it for her.

[Shockeye]

I'd tell you what I'm getting my wife, but since she reads these forums, I'm not going to spoil it for her.

She already knows it's anal beads.

[WayAbvPar]

He got a good deal on them on eBay. Hardly used at all!

[Rasix]

I don't know if I'd trust anything being sold by "skull_cane_bruce_the_furvert" though.

Yah, I know, 

[Sky]

Rasix, I don't think he is a necrophilic beastialiator.

[HaemishM]

Rasix, I don't think he is a necrophilic beastialiator.

It's not necrophilia if they are just passed out on roofies. But it feels like it.

[Viin]

I got my fiancee a chopper (no, not one of these, one of these). But she better damn well like it, it was $40!

[Yegolev]

I got my fiancee a chopper (no, not one of these, one of these). But she better damn well like it, it was $40!

n00b

[Hanzii]

I'm pretty sure my wife is getting me a nice black Citizen diving watch, that used to belong to my boss.
I'm trying to locate a Nike+Philips MP3 Run player for her... but I'm running out of time here.


When we moved into our new house, we bought ourselves a Roomba (lovely little critter) and last week I bought myself the Sony Ericsson W800i mobile - what can I say, I like toys.

We're also looking at a new wood burning stove. You think it's just a metal box you light a fire inside, but the new ones being made are actually pretty high tech (and gadgety).

[schild]

I'm pretty sure my wife is getting me a nice black Citizen diving watch, that used to belong to my boss.

Wow. That's awkward.

[Hanzii]

I'm pretty sure my wife is getting me a nice black Citizen diving watch, that used to belong to my boss.

Wow. That's awkward.

Why?
He has two - thought he lost the black one, bought a new (he makes the kind of money where buying a new one, before checking the backseat of the Porsche, apparently makes sense...). Now he has two and is selling one. I "hinted" at my wife, that this item would make someone close to her very happy. It's a $600 dollar watch.

[schild]

Honestly, I was hoping you'd leave that to the imagination. I had this whole consensual affair story in my head and now it's all been shatters. /lesigh

[Hoax]

I was right thre with you mang...   

[DevilsAdvocate]

I thought when he referred to it in the past tense, he meant his boss is no longer among the living. They just need to wash the dirt off the shovel. But it sure is a nice watch! 

[MrHat]

Just bought myself some dvd's and a new office chair since this one is fucked.

[Signe]

I bought Righ some clothes, some slippers he'll never wear, some games.  I'll put them under the coffee table on Christmas Eve since we don't have Christmas trees.   We don't usually do anything much but since we've blew off our families two years in a row, we have to pay attention to them this year or we'll be disowned... not that they own much or anything. 

Tomorrow I will buy him much beer.

[MrHat]

Good girl.

[Viin]

We're also looking at a new wood burning stove. You think it's just a metal box you light a fire inside, but the new ones being made are actually pretty high tech (and gadgety).

We're getting a gas burning stove put into our fireplace. We are also getting a tankless water heater. Yay, presents to ourselves to help us with this freakin' cold winter!

[Hanzii]

I thought when he referred to it in the past tense, he meant his boss is no longer among the living. They just need to wash the dirt off the shovel. But it sure is a nice watch! 

ok, your stories are better.

[OcellotJenkins]

All of you are going to hell.

[Strazos]

A deer gave my mom a frontend collision as an early present yesterday.

Hey, at least we get some venison out of the deal.

[shiznitz]

My brothers gave me a new monitor. My kids are getting an insane amount of toys, one highlight being a 6 foot inflatable T-Rex. My in-laws are the worst present givers on the planet so I expect another LLBean shirt (mother-in-law works there so everything she gives is LLBean.) I gave one brother a iPod nano and the other wanted a specific pair of sneakers from www.zappos.com but they don't have his size in stocl so he is SOL. The wife and I are going present free since we just redid the kitchen, although I got her the newest Madonna CD.

[SuperPopTart]

I'd tell you what I'm getting my wife, but since she reads these forums, I'm not going to spoil it for her.

She already knows it's anal beads.

I hate you people.

Did that sound ditzy?

Also, I have no idea this year what my husband got me and unfortunately he knows everything I have gotten for him, he hates being surprised and usually he is very direct about what he wants, present wise. I'm lucky that way.

He - Not so lucky :(

[Llava]

I'm hoping for a nice wireless keyboard/mouse combo so I can bring catassing to new heights by never even having to leave my bed to grind.

Hm.  Probably should've thought of that when I had more free time.

[Signe]

I'm hoping for a nice wireless keyboard/mouse combo so I can bring catassing to new heights by never even having to leave my bed to grind.

This sentence just sounds weird.  Very nearly pervy, too.

[Llava]

You gave me an idea, Signe. But I will not speak it aloud. In case it's heard.