The Life of the Nickness

Wow. Decemberween has come and gone and with the arrival of my parents’ card in the mail today, I’ve officially received all my gifts.

I won’t be listing any joint gifts that Megan and I got as a couple, as they are mainly small items, giftcards from family/clients and stuff for the kitchen, and are too numerous for me to remember what they all are(except the Lenox martini set we got from her brother and sister in law)

So, other than the joint gifts, heres the breakdown:

Stockingstuffers:

candy, socks, shaving cream, deodorant, a weird looking dog figurine(meant as a prank gift, i hope) 3 scratch off cards(I won $1) and a kids pirate sticker book(probably meant as a prank gift, but lemme tell you: pirate stickers rock!)

Nonstocking gifts:

A Christmas Ornament from my Grandma

Cash from my parents(I love you Mom and Dad. Seriously. It was really unexpected)

2 really nice shirts, a red sweater(my traditional yearly sweater), some undershirts, a pair of jeans, and an awesomely cool shaving kit from Megan

Season 3 of House, from Megan’s twin brother and sister-in-law

a pair of lounge pants, nike tennis shoes and a Tomtom One GPS unit(which I love so much I’m sleeping with) from Megan’s parents

Yup. Pretty good decemberween season, if I do say so myself.

Oh, and for those of you wondering: I surprised the crap out of Megan with a Pink Dell Inspiron 1721 notebook computer. Mad props to my brother for helping me out with it.

For some unknown reason(maybe it’s the geek in me trying to get out), I really have a strong desire to learn linux.

Anyone know of any good websites that would help a beginner like me learn it?

I just sent up my gmail account to forward to Thunderbird.

I’ve been missing Thunderbird ever since ztug.net went offline.

Good to have you back, Thunderbird.

Anyone else out there use Thunderbird? What do you think of it? What are your favorite add-ons?