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I’m going to post this list with the following preface: I would never expect to receive anything on this wish list (hence the “ultimate”).  I am merely thinking of things I’d love to someday have but probably won’t anytime soon as I don’t have thousands of extra dollars just laying around :)

Before I get into my list itself, I thought that everyone might want to know about a really cool tool I’ve been using for nearly the past year or so called the “Universal Wish List Button” by Amazon.  It allows you to easily add items from any website onto your wish lists on Amazon.com. It has made my life a lot easier for managing my wish lists and has been quite useful to me on a weekly basis at least so I highly recommend it :)

I have a lot of Ruby and Ruby on Rails books, but what I don’t have is a ton of swag to go with it. I’d love a few Ruby on Rails related t-shirts and other miscellaneous stuff :)

• This shirt in Medium and Charcoal would be awesome.

  

• This sticker for my netbook would be very cool :)

  

• Or even this button to go on my backpack for the few times I do travel.

  

So nothing in that list is too bad (ranging from $4-$30ish). How about the next genre… Technology :) This will make your mouth water and probably destroy your bank account as well:

• A new 27″ iMac to replace my Mac Pro and it’s crappy 23″Acer monitor. Specs:
  • 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
  • 8GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
  • 2TB Serial ATA Drive
  • Apple Remote, Magic Mouse, Wireless Keyboard
  • AppleCare Protection Plan for iMac - Auto-enroll (NEVER buy a Mac without it!)
  • Total price with gov’t discount: $2,622.00

  

• But what if I wanted to just bide myself over until I can save up for the nice new shiny iMac? Well I could always upgrade my current setup. I do have a Mac Pro first generation after all that’s only 3 years old, surely it’s good for something still right?
  • There’s always the 24″ LED Apple Display ($799)

    

  • But then I’d need the ATI Radeon 4870 graphics card to make it work with my Mac Pro ($314)

    

  • I’d also need more RAM (another 12GB should do it) to keep my slow moving Mac Pro going ($402)
  • Total price to upgrade current setup: $1515 (You can see why I’d rather just get the 27″ iMac no?)
• Next up on my list is a Drobo S (NEW at only $799!) & of course I’d need 5 2TB hard drives to go in it ($699.95).

  

• Last, but not least is a TiVo. You see, I absolutely HATE my Verizon FiOS DVR. I hate that in order to use it I have to have their crappy ActionTek Router and then piggy-back my Apple Airport Extreme network setup off of it. So if I could just get rid of that stupid DVR I could ran a CAT5 down to my Airport Extreme and skip the bandwidth throttle on my 50MBPS connection. That would be great… how can I do that though? By getting a TiVo (yay!) (TiVo HD = $250 normally $300). Add in a 1TB drive to store a whole lot more since I can upgrade it myself for only an additional $80.

  

And that about sums up my main dream items right now. Is there anything technology related that is in your ultimate setup wish list? Anything I should know about but have somehow missed? Let me know in the comments :)

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I suck at blogging so I figure a quick blurb of text will be better than nothing.

I’m thankful for (in no particular order):

• Katie and her constant love, support, understanding, forgiveness, and encouragement. Her belief in me and how valuable and special I am is more than I ever thought of myself and has helped make me the confident, cheerful, and kind person I am today.
• Paisley for her smile, laughter, hugs, kisses, pain, crying, and growth. Watching her grow on a daily basis helps me realize how much we take for granted every day and how there is always room to do more, learn more, and be a better person.
• A job that provides a stable income for my family and allows me to grow professionally.
• A boss who cares about his employees and takes the suggestions we have to heart and really listens to our needs.
• Ruby for making my life as a programmer enjoyable.
• Rails for providing the easiest web development framework that just gets it right the first time.
• Friends for being there even when you haven’t talked to them in months.
• Online friends for getting you through the months when you never make time to talk to your old friends. For meeting up to eat sushi when you’re in town. For teaching you new skills, experiences, and helping you realize how important a random stranger can be to anyone.
• Google Reader, Twitter, and social networking in general for distracting me from whatever it is I’m supposed to be doing.
• My iPhone for making it so much easier to get distracted on the go.
• Vacations for forcing me to take a break.
• Impromptu trips for reminding me that family is always more important than that blog, website, side-job, or house project I wanted to work on right then.
• Shopping for making Katie look gorgeous no matter the time of year.
• Eating out for saving me from having to find energy to do dishes.
• Vocelli’s pizza for giving me an easy pre-planned meal (even if they always get it wrong) at least once a week.
• Katie’s baking for satisfying my sweet tooth and helping me keep my tummy she loves ;)
• Computers for providing me a way to make a living without having to be a “real man” (e.g.: cars, hunting, manual labor, hardware, and hammers).
• LOST for being the most amazing television show ever!
• Snowboarding (even just once a season) for reminding me about the beauty of the Earth we live on and giving me that rush that nothing else quite can.
• My savior and constant example, Jesus Christ, for reminding me to turn the other cheek, bite my tongue, forgive others, and be patient.
• Life for helping me to realize that there’s always a reason to keep going even when it seems like there’s no point to it at that specific moment in time.
• Being a girl and being able to express my emotions freely not caring about what others may think of me.
• Portland, OR, Japan, and San Francisco for giving me places I would one day like to live because of their community, beauty, and kind people.

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