4 quick notes.
1. Melissa found a random old Border's gift card left over from last Christmas that had $36.00 on it. I went and bought Stoa by Nik Bärtsch's Ronin. Let me remind you that I was thinking about buying this album a long time ago. Let me hereby publicly prostrate myself in front of Jeremy Tilton and say that I'm sorry I ever doubted his musical tastes or suggestions. This album is freaking awesome.

2. I haven't forgotten about the contest winners. Josh, I'll need to consult with you online sometime, Caren, I'll need your address, and Ben and I have been in constant consultation. I also owe another contest or two in the next little bit here. As soon as I crawl out under work and school stuff I'll be hitting the contest scene pretty hard.

3. I'm semi-excited about my final project for my class. More to come.

4. To everybody who's asked: My Amazon wish list can be found here. It's prioritized, though sort of half-heartedly, so pretty much anything on there would be neat-o for Christmas. Books and CDs are great used, so if you're short on cash, or you want extra bang for your christmas buck for me, I'd love to have two used books for the price of one new one, or CDs or whatever else :) Other things that would be nice as Christmas presents include:

• Nice looking articles of clothing



• Morse code/Ham Radio apparatuses



• Fancy hot chocolate



• Chocolate cookbooks (don't know which ones are good, so I haven't added any to the list)



• Subscriptions to Make, Cook's illustrated or QST (which would just be membership in the ARRL).



• Board games (Apples to Apples, Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne expansions besides "Cathedrals and Inns")



• Other fun digital widgets (Arduino stuff, Chumby-like stuff), though nnone of those are necessarily things that I want, they might be cool.)

And anything else you think might be cool.