Published 2004-12-04 09:48:44
Well, It's not that bad, but these days, adding new methods to DBDO is being overridden by trips to toy shops and shopping centers.
As a born again child, I always have fun picking toys for my kids, while it is a little more difficult these days (forget toy-r-us, they generally on cater for brain dead 5 year olds or less.). We managed to hunt down a few toys that actually might entertain more more than 5 minutes, and excercise a little bit of that brain juice.
I've also been toying with going through a linux install with my oldest son, and in combination buying myself a new motherboard, and giving him the old one to build his own computer, we might find something to play with :)
But back to those shopping trips, the question this year has been 'real tree or fake', While the nice authentic smelling, and extremely messy, real ones have been shipped down from warmer climates in previous years, a sense of "been there done it" is creaping in. So we have been looking at the plastic versions.
The latest versions freshly produced across the border in China, include fibre optic leaves/branches, which supprisingly look quite elegant. However, in a sense of how to masacre Christmas they include 8 polymophic tunes, or enought to drive you to burn the thing at the end of Christmas. Sometimes it's a shame that we end up getting the offshoots of what American consumers expect for Christmas.
ah well hohoho, and lets get back to work :)
