Happy Holidays from Dave, Kathleen, and Jimmy
Aiello: We spent lots of time this Christmas with
family and friends. We also bought a new car.
[ Photo: Scott Aiello ]
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year from your friends at Operation Gadget.
I didn’t expect to be away from my keyboard for as long as I was, but Kathleen and I got really busy with the holidays and with car shopping. This is the first real opportunity I’ve had to wish our readers happy holidays.
This was Jimmy’s first Christmas, and he got to see most of his close relatives. We spent Christmas Eve at home with a group of friends and relatives including my father, my brother and sister and their spouses / fiancees and children. My nephew Wes Howson born in early December, so this was his first Christmas as well. Kathleen’s parents, her sister, brother John, and her Aunt Jane as well as our friend Jen Colangelo were also here.
On Christmas Day, we opened gifts to each other at home in the morning and then went to Kathleen’s parents’ house in South Jersey for the afternoon. We met Kathleen’s brother Scott and his family there. That was probably the most enjoyable Christmas Day get-together we’ve had in years.
Over the past week, Kathleen and I spent a lot of time shopping for and buying a new car to replace our trusty old Jeep Grand Cherokee that we put out to pasture in early December. It’s amazing how complicated a purchase decision like that is. We are really excited now that it’s over.
Hopefully I’ll have time to talk more about our car purchase over the next few days.
Over the next few weeks I hope to be able to talk more about the gadgets that friends and relatives got during the holidays, and to talk more about the Nokia N-Series mobile phones that I’ve been testing during the Fall. I recently got a Nokia N80 Internet Edition phone, and I hope to be able to use it to make VoIP calls using my WiFi network in the next few days.