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What do I want for Christmas?

Published by Jerry on December 22, 2006 in Family, Food and Ramblings. 0 Comments Tags: afghanistan, christmas, congo, Darfur, Food, genocide, iraq, iraq-war, lebanon, live-earth-farm, oil, outstanding-in-the-field, palestine, paulstamatiou.com, politics, Sarah-McLachian, stewardship, sustainability, what-i-want-for-christmas.

Paul’s contest got me thinking again about what I want for Christmas.

I always do my best thinking on this topic way to close to Christmas for it to make much difference — my family is typically done with shopping and often pissed at me for having made picking a present for me so hard. The only reason that I can come up with for procrastinating this so long is that I am in a service industry where everyone wants to push everything out before everyone else takes vacation — and that means that my early December is wicked-busy. This year was no exception. Today is day 2 of my vacation — I was so busy the first half of this month that I needed the entire first day to decompress.

So now I sit — in a quiet house (not totally quiet, Airtunes is playing Sarah McLachian right now — recent tracks). Paula and my two girls are out on a play-date and it’s just me and the laptop — ah, the life.

What more could I want? Continue reading ‘What do I want for Christmas?’

Apple Just Won Me Over Again

Published by Jerry on October 26, 2006 in Family and Fun. 3 Comments Tags: apple, apple-service, coreybeaman.com, customer-service, macbook-pro, paulstamatiou.com.

I know, I know, I just wrote about Apple Service.

But I can’t let this story pass. It is just too good.

I am cruising my RSS feeds and Paul’s entry about the new MacBook Pros looks interesting…actually it was the Google piece of the entry that really took me to Paul’s site, but that’s yet another entry.

Paul mentioned in his entry how significant the upgrades were to the MacBook Pro line of computers and my heart sank.

Why? Because I just ordered a MacBook Pro. In fact, I ordered it for my Mom who was giving it to me as a birthday present — she doesn’t do something that big as a surprise.

Mom and I placed the order at the end of September and Continue reading ‘Apple Just Won Me Over Again’