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when I was around 3 years old, my mom gave me a strange hot pink plastic toy hair dryer that ran on 1 AA battery. It had a drawing of a strange medusa-like girl on it. I'm a dude. I have no idea, how or why did she got that for me as a present, but i fucking loved it. so much so it's tiny momentary switch that turned it on completely broke my thumb. it made me really happy. (probably because my parents worked a lot so I was put into a nursery, and seeing my mom coming there for grabbing me at the end of the day always made me happy. so I maybe connected the toy hair dryer with this)
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around 12 years old (it was around 2008-2009), a family friend gave me a Psion Series 3A palmtop computer (a retro handheld 16bit computer from the mid-to-end 90's) with few SSD cartridges (storage). previously it was used by the police force and on those cartridges I've found several police work related softwares written for the device. It was a special gift, I loved that machine. I learned a lot about programming on it with its strange programming language called OPL. Had a complete manual for it in my native language. It had not the best keys, but typed countless of lines of code on it.
A Nintendo 64!!!!!!!
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THANK YOU SATAN
My best friend knows that I collect watches and that Alice in wonderland is one of my favorite fictional universes. She commissioned a silver pocket watch with the white rabbit on the front which also serves as an inside joke between us. It's the most thoughtful gift I've ever received and I love it.
I have to make a conscious effort to drink water, and my health requires that I do so. In order to not be dehydrated and sick, I carry a water bottle wherever I go.
I had a really cool NES water bottle that I loved because it had a push-button flip top. The less effort it takes for me to get to the water, the better! But eventually, the top broke and I begrudgingly had to get another water bottle.
Got one off Amazon (during lockdowns), and I just always had issues with it. Too big, flip top would come open in my bag sometimes, hard to clean, etc. I finally asked for a water bottle for Christmas as the one thing I wanted, and my SIL came through.
The flip top is SO easy to clean, the button is great, it has a handle that can flip up & down and doubles as a safety that covers up the button (so no more accidental openings!!), it has a pour spout AND a clever af straw-less sip option built into the top and it is just.... so good. She got me a bright orange one, because that was the only color they had in the store at the time, and she was worried I would have preferred a darker, more neutral color. Nope! Turns out, it's perfect for making sure I don't constantly lose my water bottle anymore!
As you can see, I will ramble to anyone who asks about it, because it's just so damn good.
I recently realized that it comes in different sizes, too!!
So anyone in the market for a damn good water bottle, check out the "owala"-brand. It's extremely inexpensive, great quality, lots of color & size choices, and it's just great. I swear I'm not a company shill– just a passionate hydro homie.
Here's a photo of mine. Yours will not come with stickers. Gotta supply your own. Sorry!
Loved reading that, ever thought about writing?
Thank you!
Think about writing a lot, but writing seems like a hard gig these days. Plus, most of my writing is rambling thoughts, so I'm not sure I could find the right audience for it.
Appreciate it, though. (:
Life.
“And the worst?” I hear you ask…
Also, life.
Just a really nice day with off with my wife, including really great sex, on my birthday.
My dog, my best friend
Glasses to correct colorblindness. Mine is mild. I didn't even want the glasses. Until about half a second after putting them on.
A Nintendo Wii with Super Mario Galaxy, it was the first game console I ever owned.
40th birthday twofer. Mom gave me a Kenner power droid still in its packaging that she'd saved since my childhood. One of my friends followed that with the rancor in its box.
A watch, when I was 15.
Chair.
A huge box of used Fisher Technik components. I was 10 at the time and these things kept my phantasy busy for years.
Currently a tie between RAM for my computer that had only around ~4mb worth to begin with or the switch I got from a pawn shop.
An Amy Lee poster when I was a kid was the greatest present I got for my birthday. I also got a new PlayStation that year, that was my second favorite.