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Christmas News
Coupleness News
Yesterday our six-month wedding anniversary. It's been a good six months with Jamey. :)
My family gave us our first (new) Christmas ornaments today. (Jamey's dad gave us his Christmas decorations when he moved to Illinois.) We received some red and white glass bulbs and a glass snowman that says "Our first Christmas". It feels odd to say this is our "first Christmas", as if our last four Christmases as a couple doesn't count.
Christmas 2007
Christmas was good. We spent the day with my family in Rainier. My friend David happened to be in Rainier to visit his parents, so he stopped by for a chat. I haven't seen him since the wedding because we've both been so busy with work. Christmas is a good excuse to pick up communications with people I've lost touch with.
Jamey and I both received lot of Christmas gifts. My favorite Christmas gifts were a Japanese tea set and arm warmers for cold weather biking. Jamey decided to find a wacky USB device to give me. He passed up the USB pole dancer and the humping dog at Fry's Electronics. Instead he bought me a USB Hello Kitty that is supposed to light and move as you type on your keyboard.
The rub is that it probably doesn't work under Linux and it's up to me to write a driver. ;) The box doesn't have a Windows logo on it, so it's probably not a certified Windows driver. That makes it likely that it will pretend to be a HID device. Yet another entry for the unusual HID device list. I predict much reverse engineering, possibly with a Windows laptop and USB snoop, or a Linux laptop with qemu and usbmon. It will be a fun challenge, and a cute set of patches.
Thoughts on Future Christmases
Jamey and I had a big discussion about Christmas a couple days ago. Jamey doesn't like all the expectations around Christmas, and hates letting people down. He says he doesn't need all the presents he gets. I personally don't like all the commercialism around Christmas. I like giving gifts, but I wouldn't mind only getting a few special gifts each year. We both agreed that we love the smell of christmas trees, but having a big christmas tree with just a few gifts below it would look silly.
So I thought up a solution for our problem. I plan on buying a pine or fir seedling from the Portland Nursery. I'll keep it in a container and trim it back every year so it says small. (The Portland Nursery website lists the pine species that will grow well in containers and how much they grow, so I don't get stuck with something that will get out of hand.) When Christmas comes, we'll bring the tree in for three days and decorate it. If Mike doesn't trust it on his nice hardwood floors, we'll keep it outside for the first couple years.
Yesterday our six-month wedding anniversary. It's been a good six months with Jamey. :)
My family gave us our first (new) Christmas ornaments today. (Jamey's dad gave us his Christmas decorations when he moved to Illinois.) We received some red and white glass bulbs and a glass snowman that says "Our first Christmas". It feels odd to say this is our "first Christmas", as if our last four Christmases as a couple doesn't count.
Christmas 2007
Christmas was good. We spent the day with my family in Rainier. My friend David happened to be in Rainier to visit his parents, so he stopped by for a chat. I haven't seen him since the wedding because we've both been so busy with work. Christmas is a good excuse to pick up communications with people I've lost touch with.
Jamey and I both received lot of Christmas gifts. My favorite Christmas gifts were a Japanese tea set and arm warmers for cold weather biking. Jamey decided to find a wacky USB device to give me. He passed up the USB pole dancer and the humping dog at Fry's Electronics. Instead he bought me a USB Hello Kitty that is supposed to light and move as you type on your keyboard.
The rub is that it probably doesn't work under Linux and it's up to me to write a driver. ;) The box doesn't have a Windows logo on it, so it's probably not a certified Windows driver. That makes it likely that it will pretend to be a HID device. Yet another entry for the unusual HID device list. I predict much reverse engineering, possibly with a Windows laptop and USB snoop, or a Linux laptop with qemu and usbmon. It will be a fun challenge, and a cute set of patches.
Thoughts on Future Christmases
Jamey and I had a big discussion about Christmas a couple days ago. Jamey doesn't like all the expectations around Christmas, and hates letting people down. He says he doesn't need all the presents he gets. I personally don't like all the commercialism around Christmas. I like giving gifts, but I wouldn't mind only getting a few special gifts each year. We both agreed that we love the smell of christmas trees, but having a big christmas tree with just a few gifts below it would look silly.
So I thought up a solution for our problem. I plan on buying a pine or fir seedling from the Portland Nursery. I'll keep it in a container and trim it back every year so it says small. (The Portland Nursery website lists the pine species that will grow well in containers and how much they grow, so I don't get stuck with something that will get out of hand.) When Christmas comes, we'll bring the tree in for three days and decorate it. If Mike doesn't trust it on his nice hardwood floors, we'll keep it outside for the first couple years.