Aspies For Freedom

I am getting surprises, but the things I really want I never ask for. I think I have a problem asking for things. I'll be happy with whatever I get anyway.

Anything Star Wars. Except for the new trilogy. I think there're still a few of the books I don't own yet...
Of course, games would be great too.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
just like the ones I used to know,
where the treetops glisten,
and children listen-
to hear, sleighbells in the snow...

I want to be anywhere white and cold and not where I am tonight. All the selfish I can muster right now.

I'd really love to have some energy - sustained energy... oh such joy ...

i want money, but my parents won't give me money so i asked for games, like nintendo wii games.

i'd want:

a Wii and/or DS
a new webcam [mine's dated]
a freaking laptop that has lots of memory and stuff
Mass Effect for sure
all the best 360 games to date
a girlfriend XDD
a better MP3 player that has more than 2 gigs..

aaand, other stuff that i can't think of. i know, i'm a bit selfish.. ^^

What's a girlfriend XDD?  Is that an anatomical measurement?

Yes, I really pray for that.

A lady friend called to ask me what I wanted for Christmas.  I asked for one DVD from a choice of several or a black belt case for my cell phone (we have the same model).  And a date, which she accepted.

I would love to use my Webcam on someone.  

I wouldn't have a laptop on public transit, and I wouldn't support laptops for kindergarteners.  It should be obvious why kindergarteners shouldn't have laptops:


Fifth grader: I got me four laptops before lunch, Billy, how many you get?
Sixth grader: Six.

Crime is always easier than working, whatever the risk is.  
A stolen iPod is playing Anthrax, Out of Sight, Out of Mind from State of Euphoria....

"Out of Sight, Out of Mind, it was yours but now it's mine"

I don't play video games any more, I haven't played a video game since..... have to think... I received Star Wars video games as a gift but I have never used them.  I remember in college I used to play them, there was even a helicopter attack game called Stryker or Striker (this was 1987 or 1988), Sopwith Camel, 3 Demon (PacMan from PacMan's point of view, 3D).

Here's what I got myself for myself:

Phillips DVD recorder: I am gradually copying 352 VHS tapes of TV programs (1995-2007) to DVD (104 down, 248 to go, 2 more burning while I am at work, I can have 4 to 6 a day either while I am at work or asleep)

LP Record Album: National Lampoon's Vacation soundtrack (includes Holiday Road by Lindsey Buckingham) - need to send to cassettes2CDs.com in Seattle to turn to CD

Audio CD: Paul Lekakis, Tattoo It ("Boom Boom Boom, Let's Go Back to My Room")
VHS: Star Wars I, the Phantom Menace
DVDs: Sicko, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith, The End of Suburbia (documentary on collapse of suburban living after end of oil economy as we know it)

Here is What Other People Are Getting (Shhhhh)

My Brother: If he can specify a charity, I will donate maybe $40 to it.  He flat out ignored my History Channel DVD of Unconventional Warfare last year, he probably is disinterested in anything he can buy himself.  Any Aspies have that feeling?  I am sure he is earning almost $2 for every $1 I earn.  I don't have a clear cut sure fire girlfriend solution for himself or I.  

Lady Friend: Woman, Thou Art Loosed, by T.D. Jakes

Lady Friend's Mom: Seven Things That Steal Your Joy by Joyce Meyers

Ex-Girlfriend: From the Dateable Blackjack Points Auction, a basket of items revolving around a beach theme, including a Caribbean steel drums CD, South Pacific on VHS, beach potpourri, candles and candle holders, etc.

Ex-Girlfriend's Mother: Christmas candle and  holder for tea candle

Friend always running errands for ex-girlfriend's mother: Battery-powered bass that sings Jingle Bells

Best Friend: VHS, Trinity, the Atomic Bomb Movie, narrated by William Shatner

Best Friend's Wife: Book, Saving Money with the Tightwad Twins: More Than 1,000 Practical Tips for Women on a Budget, Ann Fox et al

I contributed a cordless telephone to the office Secret Santa party on Wednesday and left with the Simpsons Movie DVD.

I don't know what to get the cat.

I enjoy the Unconventional Warfare DVD because the Postal Service sent it back to me.

I am positive that featured guest John Prevas, Latin faculty at some college that begins with an E, author of Xenophon's March, was our Latin instructor at Thomas Stone High School when my brother and I were there.  We were his students, paduan.  The Force was strong with us, I got straight A's.  So I was surprised when my brother let the post office send it back unclaimed.

Mr. (or Dr.) Prevas discussed how Hannibal attacked superior Roman forces by infilitrating through the Alps, enjoying some success before being ultimately defeated.  Kind of like an Osama bin Laden of his era.

Next June, 20 year high school graduation.

Oh, the candle, candle holder, and talking fish, also came from the Dateable auction.  That's where, at the end of the auction, I got a date with Ms. Wheelchair Maryland 2007, bidding 50,000 points and shocking enough, being unopposed.  Damn!  Not a word?  I never used 30,000 points.

I want an iPhone and everything that is Apple.

I will reconsider that.

Had to get a Cabbage Patch Kid for hostess's little girl, it's Christmas for her too.

The cat seems happy with a bit of balled up aluminum foil that held some leftovers from Thanksgiving.  :-)

On November 30 I had 288 left to do.  Now on December 28 I have 221 with 2 burning in progress* (219 when I get home).  Projected completion down to 205 or 207 by end of month/end of year (that is 80 or so a month and at that rate I would be done by mid-March).

*  One fully functional brand new Phillips DVD recorder purchased about Dec. 16
    One almost fully functional ILO DVD recorder purchased November 2004 that seems to get jammed 5% of the time, spoiling the DVD.  The only thing to do is segregate the VHS tapes that cause the spoiling and copy those with care, along with the 8 hour VHS tapes which you cannot obviously copy to a 6 hour DVD.