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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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Some of you may know that I’m a huge fan of LOST (thanks to Katie).  If you don’t, you do now.  I was sitting here trying to figure out a quick way to blog about the month of December as I know I don’t have time to blog as much as I should and I realized that numbers are pretty much a representation of how this month is for me.  So here comes the explanations:

• 2: The number of years Katie and I have been married (as of December 2, 2008).
• 12: The number of hours I am trying to work on average each day to earn some savings for possible unemployment come January 1, 2009.
• 15: Paisley’s age in months currently.
• 20: Katie’s age in years currently.
• 26: My age in years (as of yesterday).
• 75: The number of lightbulbs we replaced on our Candy Land tree in order to get one of the two missing strands of lights to work again this year.

I’ll take a quick moment to go over some of these in more details.  Read the rest of this entry »

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‘Twas Two nights before Christmas and all through the house,
not a Paisley was crying, or fussing about.
A calm had settled throughout the household,
as all lay sleeping this story to be told.

The presents now wrapped, labeled, and bowed,
we all waited anxiously to hear, “Ho Ho Ho!”
Our labor not done, much packing left to do,
for you see our tiny family had to go see you-know-who.

Christmas has come a day early you see.
For we would be driving all night Christmas-Eve!
The laundry all washed, dried, and folded.
Dishes put away, and Chloe un-scolded.

But there was much left to do,
the packing still to begin.
Three Christmas’ there be,
twenty-four hours within.

But now that we’re settled
and know Santa is coming,
’tis time to be snuggled
and rested for the running.

Let us remember the reason we hustle,
each Christmas we celebrate the soft little nuzzle
of our savior Jesus, the Christ our Lord.
And thank him again by showing the selflessness
that always lies within.

So sleep well all my friends,
and always remember:
to give thanks to Him
on the twenty-fifth day of December!

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