Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Unless you’re apart of the faith known as PETA, I hope you consume enough food, drink & fellowship today, as well as thank the cook(s) who prepared the food!

As for me I just finished digesting some delicious steak, although I need to grab some turkey lest my brother consumes it all!!!

As far as reasons to be thankful, there would be too many to list here, but I am thankful for my family and friends who have made my life 10 times more interesting!

As far as geek thanks goes, I’m thankful for:

• WordPress (and Page.ly)
• Evernote
• Remember The Milk
• Google+
• Twitter
• Pandora
• Netflix (ignore the haters full of hate)
• Gmail
• Instagram
• Apple
• Every iOS developer under the sun

Also despite my disaffection for him, I’m thankful for President Obama for killing off Osama bin Laden helping restore America’s future into space.

Well I have to go now! The turkey is calling me!

Image Credit: iGourmet

It seems my brothers, sisters, cousins, neices and nephews have one thing in common: they all want smart phones for Christmas!!

Being the chief geek in the tribe I decided to pick up an iPhone when they first came out, then purchased the iPhone 3GS later on (although I do miss my iMetal friend–I hope ___ _____ is enjoying it).

Unfortunately many of them want the next best thing, and since most of Verizon’s phones are ugly (Moterola Droid included–at least that is what my sister said) they are all looking for the next best thing.

Since I don’t feel like paying $200/person per phone (and will not either by the way), I am going to have to hunt for some awesome deals at WalMart, Bestbuy, eBay and Amazon.

Thus far I’m heavily looking at the Droid Eris, which has a nice user interface that actually rivals the iPhone (a first in my honest opinion).

I missed the $30 Eris Droid sale on Black Friday (Grrrrrrr!!!!) but hopefully it’s still cheap enough for me to purchase a few for the extended family (although they’ll have to pay for Verizon’s draconian service plan themselves). I might also consider a Blackberry Storm 2–depending on the deals they have. (hint, hint!)

What I really want to do is send them all an I.O.U. for Christmas and wait until they mysterious Google Phone appears (which according to rumors is similar to the HTC Passion).

So I can either get them an inexpensive gift this year (say a DVD) until the killer phone launches (just in time for birthdays) or attempt to buy them a smart phone which will become obsolete next year.

Either way, I need to make a decision–soon!! (as Christmas is next week!)

– Posted from my iPhone

While I’ll be busy feasting on the flesh of my favorite fowl (to the horror of PETA), I hope everyone has a splendid Thanksgiving with family, friends and pets–the non edible kind.

– Posted from my iPhone

…I officially salute you!

Thanks for bloodying up the bad guys on my behalf, and may God bless you in the future for your desire to sacrifice for us in the past.

Thanks!

– Posted from my iPhone

Never had it before, although my brother says it tastes pretty good.

If I do not respond after Thanks Giving, then you can assume the food was poisoned.

— Post From My iPhone

To all my friends and family, I like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

Try not to drink too much Eggnog (as it may not be good for your health).

In order to celebrate the season, I decided to post a holiday parody involving Walking in a Winter Wonderland and Star Wars–mainly because its one of the few movies everyone in my family enjoys. Cheers!

No, I have not gained any weight or lost my six pack, but I have not done any running/exercise in well over a month!

Although I hate running/exercising, it does relieve stress, which is easy to catch during this Christmas season, as I already have one gift on the way, one in the process of being completed (no details will be spilled here) and another I can only do 4 days before Christmas! (I’ll explain later on)

Getting back exercising, I am trying to figure out a way to do it so that I am not bored out of my mind as running around for two miles is not that entertaining.

Perhaps its a good time to purchase a Nintendo Wii. For Me.

But that’s not going to happen with all the gifts I have to buy.

Running it is.

In less than an hour, Christmas will be over, at least in my time zone.

Aside from connecting with family, friends and those of faith, I am really glad that everyone enjoyed their presents (which is not very easy, especially in these times).

My mom and I (along with input from my brother) purchased a black iPod for my father, which is great since:

• He is not into the geek world like me.
• It can hold all of his music, which he loves.

For my brother I purchased a movie ticket for Eragon (it was not that great) as well as the book Elder, which is the sequel to the book Eragon (which my brother explains is a lot better than the big screen version).

As far as me goes, the only thing I got was a camel backpack, something I’ll be needing next year as I go running/hiking through the green forests of my state.

With 2007 coming up, I am really exciting about the changes that are about to happen, although I can not legally highlight them here on this blog (sigh…we live in a world full of lawyers).

Anyways, Merry Christmas to everyone! And a happy New Year too!

Now that I am done buying presents (as long as I do not see another gift idea for a family member) I can now “prepare” the gifts for those receiving it.

Now I don’t mean simply wrapping the gift with wrapping paper (or old newspapers which I think is cooler) but simply personalizing them for my parents and siblings.

Some of it involves writing inside the gift, while for the electronic ones it means adjusting the gift to fit their tastes.

Sorry if I am sounding vague here (and not telling what I bought) but I do not want to spoil the surprise as I can not tell who exactly reads this blog online, other than via an IP signal.

But in order to justify reading this post, here are a bunch of YouTuber’s celebrating the holidays by singing The Twelve Days of Christmas. Enjoy!

So I finished Christmas shopping today, although I still have to “prepare the gifts” for that day of celebration. (more info regarding that later)

Meanwhile I think I am going to be blogging light for a while as I have some non-geek related activities to take care of.

For those of you who celebrate it (and for those of you who don’t) Merry Christmas! (and a happy new year!)