Normally I get a lump of coal, but this year I got some funds for a Bushhawk. And he brought me a Colorchecker Passport...very cool.

Five Pups A-Pooping And A Patridge In A Pear Tree .

Jim

Chanthee purchased me a graphics card that she must have spied me looking at...which is really cool. I had been meaning to purchase the card since getting the desktop last year but have lived with it since. It has never run optimally, but I figured that it was getting along well enough. LOL, it is pretty cool having a computer geek in the household!!!

James

Snow, Ice, books and intestinal distress

One other thing that Linda and I actually got for each other was a dog cart. Sundance loves to pull a cart and I want to put Carting titles on the rest of the crew so we figured it was time. Besides, this will allow us to give cart rides to kids at various functions and really make the dogs that much more approachable. Now to figure out how to make room for it in the garage .

Jim

That sounds like a lot of fun.

No photo equipment but I got a couple new photo magazines at Barnes and Noble while shopping for my son. It was kind of ironic - I carried around a new Annie Lebowitz book for him, then changed my mind and got him a really nice glossy Photoshop tricks book and book on cinematic special effects. As it turns out, he gave me a gift card to Barnes and Noble so I may have to go back and get the book by Annie. I'll let him read it.

Diana

Henkel knives! about to go cook with them now

An HP B9180 from Ebay - so now I am trying to figure out how to use it!

Learning about DPI, resolution, profiles, specialty papers....

I got a Drobo....my backup worries are significantly reduced now. Just plug in up to 4 drives...the computer sees it as one drive and it is RAID 5 with no setup problems. One drive fails...just plug in a new drive and it rebuilds itself. No data destroyed.

Roman