Christmas Loot 2019?

I bought a metric and SAE set of HF Icon wrenches. I got a pair of ibuds/airpods/earpods? from my wife. I also got a Roomba knockoff robot vacuum cleaner. 

I got a keyboard, SD card, and ardu cam but no Raspberry pi to hook it up to. I also added a second person to my phone plan and got more electrical gremlins in the ranger. 

On the plus side I got to watch demon spawn open her presents and go absolutely bonkers with everything. She's finally old enough to really have fun with it. That was great. 

Wife and I did really well this year.  A few highlights.

• Big ol chunk of cash from my parents.  Always welcome.  
• Got her a new Garmin watch, a sweet bag for her laptop, new socks, and some kitchen items she wanted.
• She got me a new Roadkill sweatshirt, a vest, a floor jack, a subscription to a magazine, and some other great stuff.
• I got me a new Garmin watch too, since they were on sale for Black Friday.
• In-laws got me a bottle of Makers Mark, a Lodge cast iron pan I wanted, and a new Nalgene bottle.  

Had some good eats, good times, nice road trip with the wife, and now enjoying a day off to do absolutely berkeleyall.  

Cash to pay towards a trip to Spain in 2020. 

A dozen dozen of acid brushes - incredible useful when messing with cars and a one year subscription to GRM - the paper version.

What more can one ask? And exactly what I asked of Santa.

Does stuff you get for yourself count?

In that case I got myself another two-wheeled contraption in my attempts to replace projects with running vehicles. Mind you, it's still a couple of weeks out from actually appearing in my garage.

Girlfriend hit it out of the park this year 

ThurdFerguson said:

"boil" the eggs in an instant pot.  The pressure cooking method makes the shells slide right off.

 

 

This. 

ThurdFerguson said:

"boil" the eggs in an instant pot.  The pressure cooking method makes the shells slide right off.

 

 

This. 

In reply to bigdaddylee82 :

Build thread on the nixie clock?

Got an"refurbished" ps3 with a 1yr replacement plan from gamestop to replace my YLOD plagued one.  New one has frozen and will not reboot.  I'm hoping Carli can get a full refund on the machine and the warranty and we can buy from a better place.  The thing has rust on the pins in the network cable port 

also a 12 ton air over hydraulic jack to convert my cage bender to be not manual anymore

"How to Build a Car" by Adrian Newey, Autozone gift card, three flannel shirts from L.L.Bean and Dixxon, a new {longer} belt, and a box of a dozen "Dead Skunk Motorsports" T-shirts.

In reply to paranoid_android :

Sure, or maybe a post with some pics in the "Latest Builds" thread.  It's a QTC+ kit from PV Electronics in the UK.  I've wanted a Nixie clock since I've known they existed.  I watched a YouTube video, Peter Sripol maybe, and learned of PV Electronics. 

There's some YouTube videos of folks putting together kits.

Only thing that'll be unique about mine (assuming it works) will be the box I put it in.  I had no idea sheets of veneer are so expensive!

I've ordered a power supply, some decent leaded solder, and some new tips for my solder station, that should all be here Monday.  I'll have the "guts" together and hopefully working before I build the box.

Here's an interesting video on how nixie tubes are made.
 

I received a car wash membership and a 75 piece Tap&Die set.     

Kind of fun to have the express lane to clean the truck.

I got a Tamiya Mazda3 RC car:

And They Might Be Giants' Lincoln on vinyl:

I didn't get any presents, but that is intentional. Actually, I'll be ending the season with less stuff as I sold off two unused bike frames as well as finally sending some parts I sold to the buyer down in DC.

Yay.

I got a new holster that I've had my eyes on, and some new headphones and a Bluetooth speaker. Folks gave us money towards our house fund. 

BoxheadTim said:

Does stuff you get for yourself count?

If it does, this is what I got myself.

I was a really good boy all year so I deserved it

I got two major gifts this year that I wanted for a while:

Picked this up on Black Friday, but it counts! Parents chipped in on this one, and hooked me up with some new tools to go in it. It's been a great help in keeping my little garage clean and organized.

Samsung Galaxy Watch. The wife and I bought each other new ones to replace our old Gear Fit 2's. So far, I love it. Feels like a real watch and the battery lasts about 8x as long as my old watch.

Oh, and I got this today.    Old Budweiser swag