This year it was a fairly quiet affair, seeing as we’d already visited family in late summer and at Thanksgiving.
The kids did well as usual. Mini-Elbeno got a Kindle Fire from the grandparents (and has been bound not to buy anything on it without the express permission and help of Mrs Elbeno or myself). Micro-Elbeno is apparently going to grow up to be a typographer because he loves letters so much. He got various alphabetic gifts.
I got Mrs Elbeno a wooden watch made from maple and sandalwood. As for me, I got a few items from my always well-stocked Amazon wishlist:
- Drive
- 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
- Stephen Fry in America
- Peopleware, 2nd Ed.
- API Design for C++
- George R. R. Martin stuff
Also a nose/ear hair trimmer, a quiz game called bezzerwizzer, and various comestibles, chocolate and otherwise.