Taking technology geekdom to a new level I sit here typing this from my living room couch on my new iPod Touch, a Christmas present from Dianne. And for a device I realy didn't think I needed or wanted, I sure have had a lot of fun playing around with this thing. It is quite an amazing piece of technology, if I do say so. We went out yesterday and bought a wireless router for the computer network so that I can now go online with not only my laptop, but also the iPod which has built in wi fi. I can now surf the Internet from anywhere there is a hotspot such as an airport or Starbucks and can make Blogger entries from anywhere. While all this is fabulous I still have yet to come up with a practical use for this. But now, at least, I have somewhere to store and listen to my meager music collection, and what may be an even better deal is that I can store videos on it and use it for business purposes to demo my wedding videos at the drop of a hat to anyone who is interested. So that may be the justfication I needed to buy this rather expensive toy.
Christmas was rather quiet around the Hilton Homestead again this year. Angie, Lee, and Chris joined us for supper on Christmas eve before we went to the Christmas eve candlelight service. Then on Christmas morning we waited until Angie & Lee came over from his parents and we opened gifts and then had our Christmas turkey dinner, which was scrumptious as always. We have been taking it easy since then, just watching a few movies, doing a bit of shopping and eating more turkey. Angie & Lee flew off to Pheonix on Christmas day to spend a couple of weeks vacationing at Lee's parents place down there. We just had a couple of Chris' friends over for supper last night for more turkey.
It has been so nice having all these days off, it's given us a chance to relax a bit, although I'm still chugging away on a long overdue video project. So, between doing that and playing with my new toy, I've had an enjoyable few days.
Merry Christmas to all and all the best in 2009.

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