Christmas 2005 has come and gone. I did the usual dinner with family, opened presents etc.. this year was a good year as usual. I tried to think of affordable gifts to ask for that would be useful to me. I got everything I asked for. This year was Bandit's first Christmas and he got a bunch of doggy treats. When I was driving home every street was either empty or had 1-2 cars on it. Every store parking lot was empty. It is so weird seeing the entire city completely deserted.

Last night I had a really weird dream. I won't describe it in great detail but it involved me drinking lots of Jack Daniels which gave me the ability to fly, and I was flying around with a cooked turkey, stuffing and vegetables who were my friends. Each of them was alive and interacted with me. WTF is going on in my head when I sleep?! My mom says she often has really weird dreams as well. Over the years I've had several dreams where I could float and fly. It's an incredible feeling. Similar to walking, you don't think about moving your legs and turning, it just happens.

This morning was boxing day. I got up around 9:30 and went through the fliers to cut out what I wanted. For the past couple years I've been planning on replacing my digital camera. It's from 1997: no usb (uses serial), maximum support for 8MB cards, terrible in low light, stops me from taking pictures when the room isn't very well lit, 1.4MP which is ok for what I want.. If I'm going to replace it, it will be an SLR with interchangeable lenses. I want the 180 degree fish eye lens, and 360 sphere stitching software so I can take high resolution 360 degree pictures of interesting places. I saw Future Shop had a decent SLR for $150 off. I went to the store and asked a question about batteries. The girl treated me like I was stupid and told me the completely wrong answer to a question I had researched earlier. I could tell she wanted me to buy but didn't want to give me much time. I took my sweet time anyway and even went to their kiosk to triple check I can get lenses for it. I decided to buy so I went back to her. She said they have 1 left in stock. She went to find it and it wasn't there, the computer was mistaken! I took this as a sign that I'm not supposed to buy it right now, and maybe that's not the one I should be buying. I had a gut feeling that I shouldn't be spending that kind of money right now anyway. I actually felt relieved after. I went to a bunch of other stores and spent about $150. I picked up useful stuff like a $15 paper shredder (regular 40), a blender for $24 (regular $36), Norton System Works 2006 for $20 (after $30 mail in rebate) and a couple other small things. Tomorrow I want to pick up a $20 set of drill bits (large collection of them from RYOBI) and a $20 closet organizer (regular $50). It is a cheap one but had everything I want and is exactly the size of my closet.