THE JOY OF GIVING IS EGO STROKING
Christmas update at the Guardian. In today's technology section PS3's being traded for Wiis at the bottom there is a comment from CharlieHorse that reads:
There is something peculiar going on... little kids cheered W11 and booed PS3 when Santa presented both systems at an event today in Burbank,CA.
Just further proof that more is just more and not necessarily better. So far, the most obvious reaction of appreciation from any gift I've given has been the cheap $25 gas cards I gave my friends who are in college. Those were also the easiest to buy.
The most fun to was definitely the basket of canned food for the shelter that was collected. The grocery store trip was ok but the people that would just bring cans by really made the holiday a social event for me. That present is also the most useful in the way it is being gifted. I'm giving it to my daughter for her to give it in her name. She spent Christmas Eve at her Grandmothers so I don't know what her reaction is yet.
The least pleasant part of this holiday so far for me was time spent at jewelry counters. I was only buying cubic zirconium earrings that my daughter asked for. Diamonds are not worth the money as she sees it, but it was at the Macy's. And the real sucky part is I had to go to several counters before somebody would tell me where to buy the things.
Me at a mall is like watching a goldfish in tap water slowly cooking under the chlorine toxicity. The final counter I arrived at was hosted by two middle aged women who spoke Urdu. I was able to transcend the experience only because one lady from India spoke of her friend standing next to her who is Pakistani. They laughed like young school girls at the wars between their two countries over religious intolerance. It was a real Macy's experience.
