Dream Top 10 Christmas Wish List

Who has never sat around and dreamed about having the biggest and best presents they could think of? If I could have any material things that only money could buy, these would probably be the top 10 on my list.

1. Canon XL H1 High Defintion Camcorder

• This is a profesional video camera at reasonable price but would provide quality to produce amazing videos. Not only is it ready to fly, but can be easily upgraded to go PRO!

2. Mac Pro

• There isn't any point of having a camera that can capture HD and not be able to have a machine with the horsepower to edit it. 8 Processors - 16 gig of RAM - 3 Tera bytes of storage. You cant touch that on the PC side. Mac rocks!
  

3. Final Cut Studio

• Having the machine is one thing, but anyone who works with digital video knows, you have to have the right software. Used by the pros to do pro work. FCS is an all in one package.
  

4. iPhone

• I'm a smart phone guy and this is the best smart phone in the world. Why get anything else?
  

5. Canon EOS 40D Digital SLR

• I cant be selfish. This camera would be for my wife. I would use it from time to time, but it would be for her. She loves taking pictures. Why not shoot awesome pictures?
  

6. 7 Night Caribbean Disney Cruise

• Vacations, for my family are...rare. This would be a chance of a lifetime to get away and have a fantastic trip. It is perfect for a 3 year old.
  

7. Mac Book Pro -

• This would be for when you need to hit the road with a computer. It has plenty of power to work on video editing projects and easily does the day to day stuff like word processing, email, internet, etc. Mac beats the snot out of Vista!
  

8. Glock 23

• I like to shoot. This is the best and most reliable pistol made...period!
  

9. Colt M4

• I always wanted a tactical rifle. This one is used by the pros. Military, SWAT and everyone else who wants or needs to throw down. It would definitely be fun!
  

10. Chevy Suburban

• If you had ever seen my 89 GMC pickup you would know why this is on my list!
  

Quality Lights or Bunk Timer

Since we have moved to a house, I had no excuse not to put up Christmas decorations outside. On the eaves, I placed white corded, clear icicles lights and I also bought an eight foot inflatable snowman for my son. Unfortunately yesterday, Frosty, as he is affectionately known, stopped working along with 3 strands of lights. I was slightly frustrated. After some investigative work, I concluded that the fuses in the plugs of both had blown out. Why? It could only be an electrical surge. How? The bunk timer that senses when it gets dark and automatically turns on the lights is the only answer!

So am I now questioning and frustrated about the quality of Christmas lights or the bad timer that is blowing out the fuses? BOTH. Why can no one develop a timer (specifically for Christmas lights) that doesn't cause a surge that blows fuses in the lights? I'm no electrical engineer, but it seems like it would be relatively simple. Now that I think about it, it might be a conspiracy! The next question, is why do they even put those goofy little fuses in the plugs any way? Back in my day, there were no fuses and if there was an electrical surge it blew out a GLASS light bulb sending shards of sharp colored glass flying. Those were the days of hard core Christmas festivities. I'm getting fed up with these wimpy little technological innovations that make you spend hours repairing a little fuse or buying all new flawed stuff.
Fa La La La La, La La La La!

Christmas Decorations

In the past few days, my wife has been pestering me to get the Christmas decorations out of the attic. Apparently, she was raised to believe that everyone must "Deck the Halls" the day after Thanksgiving! (We won't breech the subject of in-law sanity in this post) In my family, we were lucky to get the tree up before Christmas Eve! (Please don't think I have any less skepticism about my own family's sanity) Somewhere there has to be either a surrender or compromise. What should I do? What is the social acceptable norm for putting up Christmas decorations. If it was up to Wal-Mart, I should have put up a lighted, giant size, blow up snow globe in my front yard, the week after Labor Day! That's not going to happen! So offer a guy in a predicament some help....PLEASE!