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Very nice! I'm still having fun with Fallout 4. I probably won't have much time to play it the rest of the week, but hopefully I can make up for it next week.

I'm going to have to buy myself a late Christmas gift since I don't have a lot of friends with disposable incomes to speak of. Nothing was really aimed my way except for the chocolate stuff my mom got me. I'm thinking I'll get an Xbox One Elite Controller. I may end up with the whole console, but I could see it just sitting there while I simply use the controller on my PC. It's hard to get back into paying console game prices after all of the Steam sales. But getting an Xbox One would give me a good excuse to pass my 360 on to someone with kids who will hopefully get some real use out of it. The 360 has just been sitting there.

As far as consoles, I'd rather have a Wii U to get caught up on Nintendo first-party games, but I keep coming back to wanting that Xbox One Elite Controller for games I already play.

I really need to start setting aside money for a UHD/Dolby Atmos/DTS:X setup in the next year. The little bit of overtime I've been getting is a drop in the bucket for what I'm going to want. Time to get some marketable skills.

Wow, awesome gift Craig!

Went wine tasting down in the Niagara area with some family and got myself some nice wines: a nice Bacco Noir from Konzulmann for casual sipping, a nice pink bubbly, and incredible 2010 Chardonnay, A white Merlot, a very good Meritage ...

I need a wine fridge.

My wife spied this in London Drugs & decided that I had to have it - she was right.

It is a wooden model of a Medieval Siege Engine, the venerable 'Trebucher' - some assembly required, ha! I filled the counterweight bucket with small stones to provide the energy to launch the projectile as well as an authentic look.

It will fling a plastic golf ball (or whatever) downrange 8 to 10 feet before touchdown. Our cats are very, very wary.

It is quite finicky & I can't imagine how difficult & dangerous a full size machine would be to operate...





TAM

That thing looks cool. Get to building a Jenga tower and take it out!! Save the lego men!!

I got back to PEI and had my 2nd Christmas there after being in Calgary for the holidays. My super father in Law (co-builder) got me Sound Reproduction by Floyd Toole. I am nerdcited!! Another good read ahead of me. YAY!




I finished the other book I got and it is pretty hit and miss. A lot of opinion based stuff in there without much to back it up. I enjoyed chapter 12 very much though. ("How to get the best sound from your system.") It is worth buying for that chapter alone. That chapter is the readers digest version of how to set up an optimized listening room, wrt modal response and speaker setup, and early reflections. It distills all the steps down into a few pages. Worth a buy for those pages alone.

Tam - When my youngest son was in Cub Scouts, a few of the dads built a pumpkin thrower that was like your machine. It was a blast - done right, we would throw pumpkins over 200 yards with that beast. It was HUGE, too - the one dad kept it on his farm where we camped.

I need one!!

I saw a huge catapult on TV where the owner was throwing old upright pianos, ha!

TAM

I got myself a job at Apple. I'm moving back to California next month.

It definitely does rock, but I will miss Virginia, my current coworkers, and a bunch of other people I've befriended here.

It figures.
I'm heading to Virginia this year to visit.

I loathe the idea of having to move anymore. I can't imagine the purging that would need to be done.

Our move is happening too quickly to do a proper purging. Still, we live pretty small now so it's not too bad.

And it figures that you'd only come to VA after I leave.

Well dammit we had a kitchen reno project last year otherwise i would have come.
This year i'm just getting the kids' passports so we can't go until those arrive. Likely June.

At least this gives me another reason yet to visit California and hit those many wine regions.