I’m glad you and Mrs. SEB are improving, but allow me to caution you: Several of my family have had the same affliction—including me—and we’ve all learned that if you overdo things when you start feeling better, you’ll be back in bed again the next day.  So relax, read, and rest until you’re fully recovered.  Happy New Year!

I love that word ‘embiggen’.
I just asked my brother (the IT manager) if it was a well-known internet term.
Just as I thought; he’s never heard of it.
The word must be unique to bloggage.
Cool. 

Nope, it’s actually a quote from The Simpsons:  “A Noble Spirit Embiggens the Smallest Man.”

Thanks, GM - if only I could learn to wiki more and assume less I’d know more. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culturally_significant_phrases_from_The_Simpsons

Les - If you want any fantasy novels or books on magic, I can send you PLENTY. Just give me the word

Dammit, I forgot, put your Wish List link on the main site. Kthnx. :D Also, be not afraid to post more than one Wish List. Amazon is not the only site that contains them you know.... (Hint:  Newegg.com)

I got clothes, cookware, Okami for my PS2, Light Grenades for my music collection and a few other tidbits. My mother gave us all bibles after I noted my atheism at the table last year at this time. I’ve half-considered burning the book and sending back the leather bindings just so she knows what transpired, but I can cause less conflict by just keeping the book on my shelf for the rare time where I’m not entirely sure what I’m looking for - I can scan the pages faster than I can search online for the passages.

Of course, it’s a particularly funny gift in my father’s eyes, who always figured my mother for a nutcase - she went through religions in phases (Catholic, Jehovah’s Witness, LDS, Buddhism...) and settled on.. whatever she is now. I assume it has something to do with the NKJV New Testament.

Played Settlers of Catan - never got around to picking up the Knights and Cities expansion. My brother got them both for Christmas from his girl. He even got my parents in love with it, so while they won’t fork over a couple hundred bucks right away for it, they’ve got it on a wish list. The Wii also looks like fun to them, so I’ve got some gift ideas. Since I’m rolling in scholarship money now, I took it upon myself to pay for a new computer - upgrade their old K6 to a P4 or S64. We’ll see in a day what I can get them for $500.

I’ll be collecting some under-the-radar games for myself and a few textbooks on graphics programming. I figure that will keep me tied. Hope you’re all doing well for the holidays, and if you’re not, well get your shit together already!