What are you asking or got for Christmas!

[specter177]

I'm asking for a compound bow, Star Trek Online, and a bunch of bios and military history books.

[machineman9]

I'm asking for a compound bow, Star Trek Online, and a bunch of bios and military history books.

Which bow are you looking at?

[Souichiro]

Well I know I'll get an Xbox 360 controller for the cpu and probably COD MW2 and the Mosquito special from Flypast ow and I can renew my subscription to Classic Rock Magazine! as for the rest......haven't asked for anything so It'll be a surprsie!

"Classic Rock Magazine", Soui?.... ....

...I didn't know you were interested in Geology... ...!

Paul...Rock-on Soui!... .... ....!

Lol

I love classic rocks....especially diamonds and such...... my 1 year old niece loves putting blocks together and then pushing them over... I suggested we take her to Stonehenge 

[cspyro21]

Not a great deal, a few History books, some CD's and DVD's...as with most of us here, anything else will be a surpirse.

[hhomebrewer]

I live in Nevada. I am home with my parents in Virginia for Christmas. My mom is 86; my dad will be 80 in February. Nothing anyone can buy at any store beats just being with the two people who have helped me through my life from Day One right up to even today. I have a sister who treats my mom like dirt. She even treats my dad poorly until she needs money. He once wrote a check to wipe out $54,000 in credit card debt she had. He sometimes pays her rent, almost always has to pay her quarterly taxes, fills her tank whenever she comes home (she lives 45 miles away), buys her groceries when she comes home and fixes whatever needs doing on her car. She never says thanks and always blows out the door right after dinner on Sundays when she does come home, which is maybe every six to eight weeks. She never helps to prepare the dinner or clean up afterward. She never calls to tell my mom she got home OK. I asked my dad a few years after that why he keeps helping her out financially when she treats my mom so badly. I will never forget what he said: "So I can say, as I lay on my deathbed and take my last breaths, that I did all I could." In that moment, I knew my parents would never, ever let me down. Just reading and remembering what my dad said in those several seconds kind of shakes me inside. I'm not a kid anymore-- far from it. To have such parents is surely a gift from God. They have pulled my chestnuts from the fire more times than I can even estimate. I know if I ever need help, they are there for me. That's a Christmas gift that never stops giving. My dad doesn't want us (four were born, one has left us) to give him anything short of respecting our mother. I do that as a matter of course. Even at my age, I do to the letter anything she asks and right away, too. It's an honor for me to help her after she helped me for so many years. I bought my mother a rice cooker because she likes rice and almost always scorches it on our electric stove. I also got her a four-cup Pyrex measuring cup because the little two-cup thing she has is a waste of time. She does a great deal of baking at Christmas time and needs a big measuring cup to measure out the flour and sugar she uses in baking her fabulous fruitcakes. I wish y'all could sample my mom's fruitcake. Ain't nothin' like it on this planet. It's dark brown and heavy and sticky and sweet beyond all understanding and loaded with nuts and rum and booze-soaked raisins and glazed cherries. She starts baking them in September and "doctoring" them with rum for three months. She makes about two dozen and sends them to friends and family. Each one can weigh up to four pounds or so. Probably 10,000 calories in one. Very addictive to eat, too. My last gift to her was a silicon kitchen spatula set. Just a few bucks, but she said she wanted more spatulas.

I ought to send the recipe to Fozzer. He likes to cook. The recipe is probably 100 years old. My mom has been making it since she was a kid in the 1930s. My grandmother made it when she was young, too, way back in the teens and 1920s...

I bought no presents for my selfish, self-absorbed sister or my brother who ain't gonna be home for Christmas anyway...

Merry Christmas, y'all!

[BrandonF]

A BBJ2 loaded with 18 year old Swedish girls, unlimited supply of fuel, and the deed to SXM...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rTfOK50WUo
She's included!

Of course...

I want a Boeing 787, but that's not going to happen! 

[tcco94]

A BBJ2 loaded with 18 year old Swedish girls, unlimited supply of fuel, and the deed to SXM...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rTfOK50WUo
She's included!

Of course...

I want a Boeing 787, but that's not going to happen!

[BrandonF]

So you love ugly things?!  Think what ever you want about it. It's just my opinion. It is actually not as ugly as some airbus jets fortunately.

[ApplePie]

A BBJ2 loaded with 18 year old Swedish girls, unlimited supply of fuel, and the deed to SXM...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rTfOK50WUo
She's included!

Of course...

I want a Boeing 787, but that's not going to happen!

[specter177]

I'm asking for a compound bow, Star Trek Online, and a bunch of bios and military history books.

Which bow are you looking at?

Diamond Razor Edge.

[BrandonF]

A BBJ2 loaded with 18 year old Swedish girls, unlimited supply of fuel, and the deed to SXM...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rTfOK50WUo
She's included!

Of course...

I want a Boeing 787, but that's not going to happen!

[SeanTK]

Asked for DCS: Black Shark.
Other than that, it will be a surprise.
I'm more focused on the next  few days after the event, which will provide me with at least one rock concert (speaking of rocks, Fozz.....), and the possible release of FSDreamteam's PHNL airport and maybe some other neat addons.

I think I've ended up buying everything that I actually want myself, rather than getting it as a gift....  :-/

I hope everyone has a safe Christmas!

[Tomcat5]

I got myself an Asus G71GX-RX05 from BestBuy.
6GB of RAM
2.53 Ghz Dual core processer, but I usually keep it OC'ed to 2.90
Nvidia GeForce 260M with 1GB of graphics memory
500Gb hdd
Windows 7 Home Premium

This is coming from a PC that gets 30fps in FSX with all minimum settings, lol.  Get yourself one, seriously.  They're awesome!  Runs MW2 at 70 FPS with max settings, FSX with REX at 20fps minimum with max settings with my most demanding aircraft: The POSKY VC-25.

[TacitBlue]

The only gift that I've opened so far was a book from my Mom. I figure she mailed it to me from 500 miles away, how's she going to know that I opened it early?

Anyway that book is Audels Aircraft Worker by W.H. Alderman. It seems to be from a series of guide books that were popular in the 1940's. This particular one was printed in 1943. It is full of information about the tools and processes used in aircraft manufacturing. This book was meant to be a pocket guide for someone working in an aircraft factory, but the information is still relevant (even today) for a mechanic like myself. Needless to say, I really like this gift.

[yancovitch]

i'm asking for a peaceful retirement..............................Hah!!