Last week was a great week to get stuff! I got a bunch, all of which were extremely cool and all of which I tried over the weekend.
First, Vero got us some Yaktrax thingnies, an ingenious little device you strap under your boots to provide traction on hard snow and ice. I wasn't convinced when I saw it -- how can little rings help that much, shouldn't we have spikes? -- but after trying it in a frozen Johnston Canyon I can confidently say: GET SOME OF THOSE! Holy cow. We walked on ICE as if it wasn't there. We climbed hills past people in running shoes that were barely standing up. Everybody looked at us with that jealous look of "now THAT's not fair". It was great!
I also received about three year's worth of birthday and Christmas gifts from Marianne, in a neat little ThinkGeek package. This stuff is the coolest. First off, all geeks MUST get the LED Binary Clock. I can't keep my eyes off it, I'm always looking for a pattern. Great fun.
For the more mobile geeks in us, I got a bunch of t-shirts too. Binary people, there's no place like home, you are here, generic humanoid carbon unit and Joss Whedon is my master now. Vero has that face of "God save me, I'm gonna marry a geek" when I put one on. They're great! If you're looking for a birthday gift for Vero, I suggest this one.
So it's with a geek shirt and an eye on a binary clock that I (sadly) return to work after a great long weekend.
