Stuff I got for Christmas

So, for the past couple of years we’ve done this Christmas loot post thing. I planned on keeping it going this year, and I’m going to, even if it means posting about Christmas in the middle of January. I actually have two thousand words written about my holidays, but I’m not sure I want to inflict that upon the world. So I’ve extracted the loot table from that other post for your viewing pleasure.

Gifts received:

• A rather nice lap desk
• A bowl that is both round and wide for eating a mountain of cereal
• Price-split on a 23", rotation-capable monitor
• Paper Mario: Sticker Star (3DS)
• Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection (PS3)
• New winter hat with ear flaps
• Razer Onza Tournament Edition controller
• A bunch of cord management things as stocking stuffers
• From my maternal grandparents, at my request: $100
• A second pair of amazing thermal socks (the first of which I asked to have early)
• A Freekey

Gifts given:

• To Dad: Raspberry Pi and assorted extras, plus time required to turn it into a home theatre PC
• To my brother: A D&D book (plus my recommendation to parents and others on what to give him)
• To Mom: A small Bluetooth keyboard with a stand for tablets, hopefully allowing her Nexus 7 to replace her aging netbook
• For Mom’s birthday: A Kobo Glo
• For a friend in PEI: one Digispark and some assorted extras
• For M-: An external battery for charging her phone (settled on at Sacha Chua’s recommendation after I initially tried to build a MintyBoost)
• For my AP English teacher: A letter expressing my gratitude and how well things have gone for me at university thanks to all she taught us

Anyway, I may or may not inflict the full story of my winter break on the world. If I do, I won’t blame you for skipping it. If you wrote a 2000 word blog post about how you spent your break writing a 13 page essay (which was, ideally, going to be 20 pages) and submitted it just before midnight (by your supervisor’s time zone) and otherwise did boring family junk… I’d probably skip it too. I mean, maybe you can make that really interesting to read! But I don’t think I did. I might try to break it up into parts, but then I’m just making the boredom bite-sized. Decisions, decisions…