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I Win Christmas!

Today I went to the annual Ryan Troll Holiday party, which includes a "White Elephant" gift exchange.

What I gave up: components for a vintage 1998 home-built computer -- 350 MHz Pentium II processor with heatsink and fan, Asus P2B motherboard, 128 MB of screaming fast RAM, Matrox graphics card with 8 MB of VRAM, two sound cards, various cables and documentation.

What I received: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wine in near-mint condition.

Looks like Santa's got my back this year. I'm as tsetummelt as anyone over this. Who knew?

Posted by Evan Goer on Dec. 03, 2006 at 11:10 PM | Comments (4)

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  1. I had to look up the word 'tsetummelt'.

    Posted by Adiv on Dec. 04, 2006 at 12:40 PM

  2. I had to look up the word 'tsetummelt'.

    Posted by Adiv on Dec. 04, 2006 at 12:41 PM

  3. I believe it's defined as "word that humorously references my Jewishness". (OK, so it actually means "confused or bewildered". But, context!)

    Posted by Auros on Dec. 05, 2006 at 3:59 PM

  4. Don't feel bad Adiv, I had to look it up myself to be sure I had the meaning right.

    Posted by Evan on Dec. 05, 2006 at 7:21 PM

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