Christmas tucker, broken machines and vroom broom

*Sigh* One more Christmas over and done with. No more presents to open, no more food to eat. Just a mountain of discarded wrapping paper and an expanding waistline to deal with as 2006 comes to a close. Loot and food were both good as usual and it was nice to see all the family together but for some reason this year felt less "Christmasy" than usual. Yet another sign of getting old I guess.



Just a little miffed writing this entry as I'm using my desktop to post for the first time in ages. Reason behind this is poor Gemini has picked a god awful time to decide to go on the blink. From what I can tell it's either a buggered LCD panel or graphics card so either way I'm going to have to send it back in to Toshiba to repair. 14 working days apparently if everything goes well. Bother.

Not exactly a laptop replacement but we managed to procure a new gadget (in the broadest sense of the word) thanks to a very generous contribution from Santa. The crappy $30 vacuum cleaner that's sputtered along our dust ridden floor has finally been replaced with a shiny, black, sucking machine (Minds out of the gutter now). Probably did end up paying more than we'd planned but we did get a good price on it and a free steam mop. We've given it a test run and that Power Head has definitely done a good job on our carpet (You filthy filthy thing).