- Deb likes her laptop.
- I unfortunately couldn’t convince her to go for a MacBook Pro, so I ended up getting her a Dell: 2GHz Core2Duo, 2Gig RAM, 160Gig drive, ATI X1400 grapics (256Meg), 6 hour battery. It really is a pretty nice machine. My task for the day is to move over everything she cares about from her old one. So far, I’ve moved her favourites, her email and address book, and her iTunes library. Now it gets more subtle…
- I got an 80Gig iPod video.
- I already had a library of movies that I had ripped — yes, from my own DVDs — to watch on my LifeDrive, so I just dropped them all into VisualHub and told it to convert them for use on the iPod; 12 hours and 20 Gig later, I’m all set. The screen is small, but it’s perfectly acceptable for my use.
- Dennis got lots of cool stuff…
- … as usual — games for both the PC and 360, a wireless 360 controller, a new snow skate, a marshmallow gun,… — but the gift he liked the best was a $2 rubber tube that you blow into to make farting noise. *sigh*.
- We had Christmas day dinner (mid-day meal) at my parents place.
- Excellent use of turkey. We got a chance to see Sonny and Edna for the first time in quite a while. They’re both looking well, although Sonny was down with a bit of cold. We spent the rest of the afternoon pigging out [For those that like it, no one does deserts like my family!], opening presents, playing games and chatting. What more could you want?
The best of the season to one and all! 
