Some Christmas Stuff

Posted on by kylar

I was thinking earlier today about some past christmas things and i thought I’d share a few memories with both of y’all. Every year we would go out and cut a fresh tree (Hippies: Shove it.) And we’d bring it back home, set it all up and decorate it together. It’s been a family thing for as long as I can remember. A couple of years I set up a model train around the base of the tree. I also remember that every year I’d take a couple of ornaments, and get down on the floor, and climb under the tree, and hang some all the way at the bottom. I always liked that, for some reason.

One year when I was in Grade 8 or so I really wanted this little musical keyboard (A Casio SK-1 for those who are interested.) and it had this amazing sampling ability (this is going on 18 or so years ago, remember), where you could hold down a button and talk or sing or something and it would record the sound. Then you could play it back. I wanted it pretty badly, and made sure that my parents knew it.. I showed them, left the Sears catalog open to the page where it was and so on.

Christmas day rolls around and we’re all sitting around, and we would take on epresent, give it out, wait to see them open it, etc… (Except the little ones, who pretty much just tore into everything.) Presents come and go, and I get a bunch of stuff, but no keyboard. Finally everything was done and some time later, I’m sitting with my mom, watching all the kids play and stuff, and I told my mom something to the effect that it was OK that I didn’t get what I asked for, and everything was still great. My mom then went over to this large chest that we had in our living room and pulled out a large parcel. Need I finish?

I have vague memories of when I was 4, getting up ultra early, tearing open some gifts (no clue which ones were mine) and then, informing my mom when she got up “I opened mine already.” I do distinctly remember that not all the gifts were mine, so i only opened a few.

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IRC

Posted on by kylar

<Cuisinart> you know, i can’t imagine life before Expose
<Kylar> is that a magazine? like FHM?
<Cuisinart> that’s like caveman computing
<Cuisinart> the osx feature
<Kylar> )
<Kylar> what feature is that again?
<Cuisinart> expose
<Cuisinart> hit f9
<Kylar> what does it do?
<Kylar> ahh
<Cuisinart> that’s my fav feature of OSX I think
<Cuisinart> i just signed up for a photography class at the columbus college
+of art and design
<Kylar> I think my favorite is that one where it doesn’t crash and fuck up all the
+time.
<Cuisinart> they have photoshop classes too i might take in the future
<Cuisinart> lol
<Cuisinart> yeah, that’s a good feature too

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Posted on by kylar

> I swear that eventually I’m going to move out of here
> build a fucking log cabin mansion in the hills somewhere and drink
<Cuisinart> dude, you could have paid cash for a house out here with the
+equity you have
> I need to be able to retire too :/
> http://www.alhloghomes.com/newsite/images/models/icedarbluff.jpg
> That’s the house
<PitBull-> mmmm log home
<PitBull-> to dream….the impossible dream…..
<Cuisinart> he could write his manifesto there
<Cuisinart> everyone needs a manifesto
<PitBull-> lol
> I had one here, scrawled on the back of a burrito wrapper
> but I don’t know where it went
<Cuisinart> mine is pretty short, too
<Cuisinart> i pretty much lay all the problems of today’s modern world at the
+feet of canadians
> Well, we don’t actually cause them, we just prod people into it
<PitBull-> lol
> That’s going to be my manifesto: “Prod others into actions, then retire rich
+.”
> How’s that?
> http://tinyurl.com/9ydqs
<PitBull-> i though you could call it, A Man Without Country – The Manifesto
+of an American-uckistani (Subtitle: Coming to America to find wealth:
+because all Canada has is beer and polar bears)
<Cuisinart> AHAHAHAHA

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Plug Away

Posted on by kylar

Plug away.

OK So Liz wants you to vote for her Here so go and do that now (She’s the one that says ‘I don’t make first moves’). We got into a bit of a tif yesterday b/c she wants me to vote for her but I like the Degrassi shirt better, so I told her at least I’m not voting AGAINST her. She disagreed and so on, but I can ask others to go vote for her at least.

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