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So, cheesy movie jokes aside, I had a pretty good Christmas. Tonight we went to my parents’ house, and I got a bunch more geeky goodness. I got 3 more (!) RPG books: the Player’s Guide to Eberron, Secrets of Xen’drik, and Deliria: Faerie Tales for a New Millenium. The first two are, of course, Eberron supplements, which I will put to good use in my upcoming campaign. The third is something I’ve been curious about for a while, partly because of my general fascination with fairy lore, but also because of what I’ve heard about the game on All Games Considered.
I also got a new stereo and an FM transmitter. These were both very well-intentioned gifts, but they were both just to the left of the mark. I did, in fact, want a new stereo, but one with slightly different functionality than the one I got. And I already have an FM transmitter, but I will be needing a special adapter for the stereo I want, so I can hook my iPod up to it. I’ll be exchanging this stuff for the other stuff when I go to get the stereo installed later this week, and I’m very happy with the intent and thought behind both gifts, even if they weren’t exactly what I was looking for. At any rate, they will enable me to get exactly what I’m looking for at a later date.
A couple of other things worth mentioning:
- a book entitled The 2548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said. It’s a great book to just open up randomly and read a few quotes from. Good conversation-starter.
- The Stolen Child, by Keith Donohue. It’s a novel about, as I understand it, a boy running away to live with the changelings, and it sounds right up my ally.
- A CD by a band (or artist, I’m not really sure) called Sigur Rós. I haven’t listened to it yet, and I really have no idea what to expect, other than it’s not in English (some sort of Scandinavian language, I think).
- A plastic polar bear that poops jelly beans. No, I’m not kidding.
- Various gift cards.
Once again, Merry Christmas.
