It is a little pointless, until you give the present to the kids and have them pass it to their aunty. They then stand and watch the gift getting opened, literally jumping and flapping their hands in excitement as she unwraps the present they gave her.
Kids bring the magic of Christmas back. There is still a little of the surprise: I don't know what oven mitts my sister would have selected, but I'd be surprised if it had dashunds on one hand and galahs on the other. But those are the ones the kids chose. She'll love them because of who they're from.
Buying for us adults got to be a painful process of buying and receiving things no one actually wanted.
Some of us adults are getting smarter about this, also. In the months leading up to Christmas, we'll ask each other for what we want and hold off on buying stuff for ourselves. I know that my sister wants new oven mitts. She can get by with her old ones for a couple more weeks and I'll be buying something I know she needs. I told her I needed a new light on the bike. Gave her the exact light I wanted and a link to the store she can get it from.
My other sister is all about the surprise. So with her, we have the painful process of buying and receiving things neither of us actually want.
We have this same couch!! It's so good! It's in its third house - it is so versatile, being able to change the ends of the L shape. We had it in the above orientation in the last house, but when we moved to the present place, we flipped the L to the other side because it works better in the new room.
The only complaint about it is it's not easy to wash. You need to hire something (You can use the Bunnings carpet cleaner with upholstery attachment) to clean it. You have a while before you need to worry about that though.
You probably know this, but ensure it is your back pocket and not just kept on the company email server. Good advice for anyone - if you think you'll need a document or email later, be sure you control the place where you keep it. Home hard disk/usb drive etc.
Same thing seeing iis exploit packets thrown at an Apache server. I'm sure they just spam ip ranges, because even the dumbest script kiddy is smarter than that.
I wanted to go when they here here a couple of weeks ago. But $800+ to take the family and sit on a picnic rug in the park to listen to them was more than I could justify. Particularly this month.
I am grateful that my role has minimal contact with the customer side. My lovely project manager handles all the meetings. That said, the customers and I usually like each other whenever I do deal with them.
It's unfair to lump all crypto into the same thing, but the perspective has a little validity:
Pyramid schemes are set up so that the earlier joiners tend to come away as winners while those who join at the end lose everything. Just about every collapsed crypto has had this same pattern.
Not that Monero is a collapsed Crypto. But if it ever does collapse, the pattern will probably look like a pyramid scheme.
I have a tiny window to work with after UAT is signed off and before the change freeze comes to deploy the next release to Prod. No pressure, but if you don't get this change through this week Nath, it isn't happening until late January. 🤞
The speculation and response to this murder has been intriguing. I saw a comment online speculating that if rich people instead of kids start being targets of shootings, perhaps there will finally be movement on the question of gun control.
It's a long-term issue for me that I'm not getting enough sleep. I usually average around 6 hours a night. This year, my average is 5:42, I haven't managed a 6-hour average for any 4-week period this year. I need to work on this, 5 hours a night was ok when I was 20. But I haven't been 20 for a long time.
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Since this place is numbat mad, and quokkas are now pretty famous, let me introduce you all to another Western Australian cutie:
https://perthzoo.wa.gov.au/animal/dibbler