Christmas Wishes and Brags Options

[Oogie]

Wow, Gelf can plug his GEE-TAR right into his PC and rock the house down. That's pretty nifty.

[GelfOgre]

It really is. I've recorded 3 new pieces since I opened it yesterday!

[GelfOgre]

For anyone who's interested:

http://homepage.mac.com/gelf13/.cv/gelf13/....aif-binhex.hqx

Kind of a texas style blues riff, just trying out some different sounds. Obviously I played all the instruments except the drum loop (you can tell by the sloppiness at the end )

Anyway, Dl it if you like. It took a while at work to Dl, not sure why.

[K26dp]

Can't figure out how to play it.


Anyway, Happy Festivus everyone, or whatever your appropriate celebration!


We tried to keep the presents low-key this year. Mrs Martian and I decided to forgo getting each other anything big in order to buy us a new bed. Even so, I walked away this year with the new Twin Peaks DVD set, the Illumaniti: Bavarian Fire Drill expansion, a book called American Creation about the founding fathers, some new house slippers, a $25 B&N gift certificate, and a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate.

Best of all, my parents got me a framed poster of the 1995 World Champion Atlanta Braves, and included with the poster are the Game 6 ticket stubs from our attendence, and the scorecard I used at the game. It's an awesome present for a Braves fan like me.

Of course, Martian Lad and Martian Baby II made out like bandits.

[TwinkyMaster]

Very cool, Gelf.


I, myself am a super happy Bat fan this year. My mom managed to get me all four seasons of Batman: The Animated Series. This is pretty huge for me as it's something I've always wanted since I knew the whole show was out on DVD. I finally feel like I've got my official Batman fan club membership. I can die a happy Twinky now and again and again and again.

[Soylent Daveage]

Well, I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone here. So I have. I hope you all had a joyous time...

[Trebor]

I got the usual clothes and a couple puzzles. The cool stuff was the stamp sets for Star Wars and Marvel, to go with the DC one my mom got me last year. The large comic encyclopedias for both Marvel and DC. And a giant freakin' roaster, I can make an 18 lb turkey.

[Revil Fox]

My amazing girlfriend got me an Xbox 360. Because she's amazing.

[Oogie]

My haul was fairly mixed this year. Got the usual handful of shirts, so no shock there. Some Best Buy and Red Lobster gift cards. Firechick and I got a couple hundred bucks between us, and we got two bigger gifts from The Diseased One: hockey tickets for the night of Firechick's birthday and tickets to Wicked the Friday before. So we did OK.

[Slovman]

Did better than I expected.

Got three movies, The Simpsons Movie, Casino Royale, and Superbad, three shirts, and "half" of a digital camera. It wasn't the green one I wanted, and I'm going to have to share it with Dad (which will probably cause untold problems), but it's nice to finally have a digital camera in the house. Always seems like my family is eight steps back of the current trends in technology.

Also got a little money from my oldest brother to put towards buying a new power supply for my computer. It's been trying to die on me for the last few months.

[Oogie]

I forget to say that I got a really nice rack. The wife did a great job picking it out, then screwed it really good for me the other night. Now we're just looking for a place to hang it. Then I'll put my swords up.

[GelfOgre]

Can't figure out how to play it.

This one should be easier:
http://homepage.mac.com/gelf13/.cv/gelf13/...ues.mp3-zip.zip

So the main part of my xmas haul was a tidy little bundle of cashola from my Mother and (new) Step-Father (guilt is a wonderful thing! )

So now I have to decide:

a. A new Mac. - more than I really have to spend, but my old desktop is about 4 years old now (a G4 dual 500) and really is at the end of it's useful life, although it still works fine. I'd have to go into credit for this though...

b. An iTouch. - They're just so damn cool. (and my wife seems dead set against having anything to do with AT&T, so no iPhone)

c. An iPod Classic 160 - my old 40 gb is also close to the end of it's days, and it'd be nice to be able to watch videos on the screen.

d. Rock Band - I think I'll like it more than Guitar Hero 3 (no battle mode, right?) and it seems like a fun toy.

e. A new Guitar. - buying a new guitar always makes me happy, and there's this Gretsch hollowbody that's been calling to me for a while... and who says 4 guitars is too many?

Help me out, Hallsians. What say you?

[Aaronc3477]

I did pretty well this year...a couple of gift cards to Gamestop, T.G.I. Friday's and Sports Seasons, a $100 gift card to Lowe's for a new microwave, my g/f and I both got $100 cash from my 'rents as well....I also got a couple of shirts, an Atlanta Falcons beanie that I've been wanting, a new belt with a skull and crossbones belt buckle, an office "decision maker" as a gag gift from my parents and a really nice self cleaning electric razor to keep my bald head nice and shiny from the g/f (she loves the bald head...what can I say?) .

Overall, not a bad haul....I'm pretty happy.

My amazing girlfriend got me an Xbox 360. Because she's amazing.

congrats! that's an awesome gift!

whenever you get on Xbox LIVE, let us know your gamertag and we'll get some online multiplayer going on..


(some recommendations: Halo 3, Call of Duty 4,Mass Effect, Madden 08, Blue Dragon and Assassin's Creed)

[Slovman]

I forget to say that I got a really nice rack. The wife did a great job picking it out, then screwed it really good for me the other night. Now we're just looking for a place to hang it. Then I'll put my swords up.

Your wife also has a really nice rack.


Just sayin'.

[TheRidge]

Well my awesome wife got me;

Prison Break series 2.
My Name is Earl
Timbaland - Shock Value
DC's New Frontier
Along with some other awesome stuff. Enjoyed a great Christmas day playing on the Wii for most of the morning with some Sports tiring us out. Then it was onto Paper Mario and Zelda for me. Before Christmas lunch which I cooked and then some DVD viewing such as Spider-man 3. Hooray!!