How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation?

Embedded Geek asks: "Instead of just spending Christmas break (or slowdown if you don't actually get time off) fixing up your house/car/server, are there any neat activities or events in your neck of the woods that you've been putting off? A museum exhibit? A cool new restaurant? An attraction in your hometown you usually only see with out of town relatives? Share your ideas with your fellow Slashdot readers! I, for one, plan to check out Barsoom to Blade Runner: Science Fiction in Southern California in my hometown."

Comments

Family/Friends

[Karamchand]

How about spending a bit spare time with your family and/or friends? I guess it could be quite nice and it won't do much harm either! :-)

Like Peter in the movie Office Space...

[Masa]

"I would relax, I would sit on my ass all day, I would do nothing."

And I'm doing that right now...

Re:Like Peter in the movie Office Space...

[rmohr02]

Hey Peter, man, check out channel nine!

Re:I'm spending it

[Anonymous Coward]

Get a hooker, you deserve it.

Nothing wrong with relaxing

[Joey7F]

For christmas this year our family spent the money we would have on gifts for ourselves and bought toys for poor kids in an innercity school.

This perfect to do when there are no little ones in the family (our youngest is 18) and there is nothing like seeing little kids get wide-eyed over a toy.

--Joey

Re:Nothing wrong with relaxing

[GigsVT]

So you were the dick that bought all the pasta! Thanks for spreading the joy asshole, I had to drive all the way across town to get pasta!

Toy Assembly For The Boy

[agrounds]

I'm spending my -day- off assembling toys that have been purchased or 'delivered by Santa' for my son. Mr phillips-head, Mr Duracell, and Mr Band-Aid are treating me poorly as I discover new and even more ingenious ways to bind toys that are in no way assembled to the cardboard boxes they came in. The joys of Christmas are truly without number. Twist-ties and styrofoam bricks provide a nice seat for me while I curse with reckless abandon the SOB who figured that GI Joe vehicles should practically be through-bolted to their respective boxes. Soon, I will get the portable propane torch and ignite the remaining boxes with the goodies still in them. The boy gets what survives the inferno. I like to think of this as Christmas Darwinism. Amusingly, of the many and expensive toys he received from various family, he is most taken with the $15 helicopter so far.

well...

[radiashun]

after opening all of my gifts i go to throw my new video card into my computer. 3 hours later i leave the hospital with 6 stitches from my case-o-death :-(

Still searching for my daughter

[GregAllen]

I'm still searching for my missing daughter -- she was abducted over 8 months ago. I was on America's Most Wanted in November, but she still hasn't been found.

Please help to give a geek dad the only thing he wants for Christmas -- Sabrina back at home. Please mod this up, and please visit FindSabrina.org. Please tell your friends to look at her picture to see if they've seen her.

This Christmas has really sucked for me and my family.
(Sorry about the repeat -- that's my .sig)

Googlewhacking!

[Borderline_ADD]

Two of my brothers and our families just spent an hour googlewhacking! Fun for the whole family, plus you get to see your name in lights!

Re:my list

[lactose99]

You know, most women today are totally shallow anyhow. The last three or four times I've gone clubbing lately (admittedly, these are mysteriously superficial clubs to begin with), the conversation always seems to start the same way:

me- "Hi, can I buy you a drink?"
her- "I don't know, can you?" *wink*

...one drink later...

her- "So, what operating system do you use?"

Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I play the truth card ("you know, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, I'm into the group thing") and have been laid more times than I can count in the last month alone.

Chicks dig unix.