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Freakzilla wrote:Some generous individual who does not know my children very well, gave us airsoft spring guns for Christmas. They shoot 6mm plastic BBs. We got an AK74 an M16 and two pistols. I'm going to need a box of protective eyewear and a stack of waivers. May god have mercy on my soul.

Nice! Running round the woods inflicting bruises on other people with highly realistic toy guns is great fun

Merry xmas everyone

Mom is getting us a Wii! I think I'll have to get Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare with the Zapper and an extra Zapper for squadmate mode.

A co-worker gave me her 34" Sony TV last week, it'll look great on that.

Which means I can move the TV that was in the living room into my two boy's room and hook up the spare PS2 to it. I'll have to get them two new controllers and the remote for watching DVDs.

I'll get a couple of games for the youngest boy (5).

My 8-y-o son wants pocket language translation books, so I'm trying to find him an electronic translator.

Need to find something for the princess... oh yeah, she wants long black gloves for the Kitty costume.

Freakzilla wrote:My 8-y-o son wants pocket language translation books

Oor, the urge to polyglotism! A nasty habit, that, best nip it in the bud! No good can come of it, MARK ME WORDS!

How many still have presents left to buy and/or send?

Presents? To buy? Send?

I see the words, but they have no meaning...

SandChigger wrote:

Freakzilla wrote:My 8-y-o son wants pocket language translation books

Oor, the urge to polyglotism! A nasty habit, that, best nip it in the bud! No good can come of it, MARK ME WORDS!

Not at all the reaction I was expecting from you.

Freakzilla wrote:

SandChigger wrote:

Freakzilla wrote:My 8-y-o son wants pocket language translation books

Oor, the urge to polyglotism! A nasty habit, that, best nip it in the bud! No good can come of it, MARK ME WORDS!

Not at all the reaction I was expecting from you.

Silly Chigger forgot the :tongue_firmly_crammed_into_cheek_mode: tag.

Always keep 'em guessin', that's what I says, I do!


From your dashed expectations you obviously know me well enough by now to know that I really think it's a cool thing.

What's he interested in, specifically?

Future US demographics-wise, Spanish is a good language to know. Other options would depend on what he wants to do someday. Eight's still kinda young, I guess, but does he ever make "I wanna be a _____!" pronouncements?

dashed expectations

Very good, Sir. This years honourary Smoking Jacket and Cravat award goes to you. Wear them well and don't mind the stains.

(Did you mean the ones already there or the ones I'm about to put on them? )

Eyes High wrote:How many still have presents left to buy and/or send?

I finished my shopping, with two days to go, which is a record for me. We were going to have our first Christmas together in the house, but no chance! We're at my parents for Christmas, then travelling up to Liverpool for a couple of days at my boyfriend's mum's house, then back down for New Year. We both got the whole Christmas and New Year break off work, which was a good result.

I bet you had all your shopping done weeks ago!

I asked for a list of about 20 really good Sf classics...stuff like PKD, and a few Silverbergs.


I also asked for the original vinyl version of the single "Crocodile Rock" by Elton John. O_o

I got all the big things done a week or so ago. My boy wanted a basketball hoop and my girl wanted some jewelery, so daddy delivered. Or, will deliver. Gonna go get some stocking stuffer stuff tomorrow. You know, little cheap pieces of cool crap that will entertain them for a short time, like sticker books, toy cars...stuff like that.

Worked 104 hours last week (3 jobs at moments) and will be pushing that or more this week, so haven't had time other than to sleep, eat, drive, work. Only one more week and will have consolidated down to one job (best of three) and moving forward.

Going to try and push the sleep a bit Wednesday night and knock out some shopping just so I can show up at ex to be's place with something for my kids.

Once settled with new job, will catch them up.

100 hour work weeks suck!!

Merry New Year and happy festivas!!

trang wrote:Worked 104 hours last week (3 jobs at moments) and will be pushing that or more this week, so haven't had time other than to sleep, eat, drive, work. Only one more week and will have consolidated down to one job (best of three) and moving forward.

Going to try and push the sleep a bit Wednesday night and knock out some shopping just so I can show up at ex to be's place with something for my kids.

Once settled with new job, will catch them up.

100 hour work weeks suck!!

Merry New Year and happy festivas!!

I did that for two years before law school started, Trang. I was about dead at the end. I had three jobs too. One as a teller at a bank, another as a bookseller at Border's, and a third on the weekends doing destruction on homes my buddy's company was going to fix up. Sure wouldn't want to be our age doing that shit. Good luck.

New IT job, More money.. training during days 4 days week. 7am to 3pm
Old IT JOB.. finishing out two week notice. 6pm to 6am
Security job on weekends 7am to 3pm, Finishing out two weeks notice there also.

Will be down to one job on December 30th, working New Job midnight to noon shifts, rotating days.

the suck part is I have had two windows where im doing 40 in 48 on weekends and in middle of the week, is only short term so will survive.

...and a merry one to you all...

Already Xmas morning here (well, 4:20 AM ), so Merry Christmas everyone!

Here are some pix a friend sent me, proving that crazy is evenly distributed throughout the human population:


(Clicky picky for more of same)

Merry Christmas, Chig.

People in Sacramento go nuts for that kind of thing. There are entire streets where every house must triple or quadruple their electrical consumption during the holidays. Personally, I love that stuff. It gets even better watching my kids go nuts when they see it.

MERRY...

...CHRISTMAS!

Reminds me that someone decorated a butt-ugly statue of a hammerhead midget (for lack of any possible better description) in front of the Education Dept. buildings to look like Santa.

(I think it was some art major's Master's project. Anyway, it's known in some circles as "Bijaz". )