What'd you score?

[chopininov]

Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, or the Nativity of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, what gifts did you score for the holidays?

[thalbergmad]

Me got some new banjo strings, trainers, large fruit & nut Toblerone and a radio controlled K9 from Doctor Who.

Also large bottle of Scotch.

hic

Thal

[ganymed]

i got nothing for  x mas :O

[tompilk]

my parents surprised me with a 4 page letter (with envelope) written by busoni to lessmann about how his compositions are faring... really pleased. one of the best presents i've ever had, with the only exception of my piano! i need to buy a safe to put it in!!!
Hopefully the start of a collection!
Also got the Earl Wild Liszt DVD...

[thalbergmad]

What about the Hamelin tickets Pilky??

[shortyshort]

I got "The Blues Brothers" DVD. 

and a "Dalek" web-cam. 

And the chance to spend Yesterday, (Xmas eve), laying a new kitchen floor. 

[tompilk]

What about the Hamelin tickets Pilky??

im going to get those as well, i hope. I'm just waiting to see the programs for Ruhr, Roque de Antheron and Husum to see if I'd be better going to one of them... then I'll buy tickets. I don't think my parents could afford them all!!! so yeah, that'll be my birthday present in may hopefully.

[gilad]

I spent xams with my friend Terry. His family were all in another city( :

It was the most excting xmas day ive ever had. Being jewish and all.

for hanukah i got bugger all. They only give hanukah prezies in america for some reason.

[jakev2.0]

my parents surprised me with a 4 page letter (with envelope) written by busoni to lessmann about how his compositions are faring... really pleased. one of the best presents i've ever had, with the only exception of my piano! i need to buy a safe to put it in!!!
Hopefully the start of a collection!
Also got the Earl Wild Liszt DVD...

Ohh man, that's a wonderrful gift. Enjoy it in good health! 

[sharon_f]

Diamond stud earrings
2 books: Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks and The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
A bottle of Chardonnay, bottle of vodka, bottle of rum
... and best of all I went to Philadelphia to see the Pennsylvania Ballet's new production of The Nutcracker!

[thalbergmad]

I got some Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.

I thought it rather strange.

Thal

[aewanko]

I got some Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.

I thought it rather strange.

Thal

Hey, let's smoke those. We'll be "HIGH".


anyway i got was a pair of shorts, some money and that's pretty much it.

[pianochick93]

I am getting a bow (of the archery type) and hopefully some arrows, fingertab, armguard, and quiver.

I havn't got them yet, because the bow will be secondhand and we havn't found a suitable one.

[thalbergmad]

I am getting a bow (of the archery type) and hopefully some arrows, fingertab, armguard, and quiver.

I havn't got them yet, because the bow will be secondhand and we havn't found a suitable one.

I am sure you already know, but you have to be very careful when buying a bow and even more so if it is 2nd hand. As much care should go into buying a bow as buying clothes, since it is very important that you find one that is a perfect fit and matches your physical abilities.

Infact, i would suggest that you don't touch a 2nd hand bow and that you go to a specialist to find the most suitable product. Shooting a bow of the wrong set up is as uncomfortable as riding a bike of the wrong size, but slightly more dangerous.

End of lecture and happy shooting.

Thal

[pianochick93]

I am sure you already know, but you have to be very careful when buying a bow and even more so if it is 2nd hand. As much care should go into buying a bow as buying clothes, since it is very important that you find one that is a perfect fit and matches your physical abilities.

Infact, i would suggest that you don't touch a 2nd hand bow and that you go to a specialist to find the most suitable product. Shooting a bow of the wrong set up is as uncomfortable as riding a bike of the wrong size, but slightly more dangerous.

End of lecture and happy shooting.

Thal

I know, I wont be buying a second hand one unless it is suitable. I would prefer a new one, but we don't have the money at the moment. I have also only been doing archery for about 9 months, so I am more concerned with getting something good so that i don't have to use the club's bows, rather than getting something really special.

One of these days I will get myself an after school job and slowly save up for something good.

Also at the moment I am looking for a bow of about 25lbs draw weight, recurve, and in good condition. I am not bothered about much else, though takedown would be good.

[thalbergmad]

I use an English Longbow. It could kill a charging French Knight at 60 yards, but i have not been able to put this to the test.

Thal

[pianochick93]

Fair enough, at the moment I use a crappy recurve, 22lbs.

I havn't tried longbow, but I tried compound, and it was alright...

[shortyshort]

I use an English Longbow. It could kill a charging French Knight at 60 yards, but i have not been able to put this to the test.

That must be extremely frustrating. 

[thalbergmad]

That must be extremely frustrating. 

It is.

I will have to go down to the 7th day adventists and try it out on them.

Thal

[shortyshort]

I will have to go down to the 7th day adventists and try it out on them.

Perhaps a few illegals would make good practice. 

If you paid them, they may wear blue stripey jumpers and a strings of onions? 

[thalbergmad]

Shooting illegals should be made the national sport. Especially as the frogs are opening another processing plant.

I will write to that turd in charge of the Country.

Thal

[rc]

i got nothing for  x mas :O

I wish I got nothing.  I hate to be an ingrate, but I'm usually not too crazy 'bout the gifts people get me, I'd rather they didn't spend their money...  Visiting the family is good enough.  and the cabbage rolls, those're good too

[furtwaengler]

Some good cloths, a DVD of the Britten War Requiem's American premiere (Leinsdorf/BSO at Tanglewood, 1963+++:-), Glenn Beck's, "An Inconvenient Book," a couple gift certificates, and some chocolate did I receive on the day the world shuts down!

[shortyshort]

We're opening the remainder of our prezzies today. 

My step-children were with their dad for Christmas, so we are having another Christmas today on their return. 

[ilikepie]

All my Christmas presents were bought my myself. I'd rather just ask my parents to buy me stuff than them getting me something I wouldn't like. I'm getting myself a ton of CDs(on my parents of course) for a Christmas present. I also bought myself an external hard drive. Not a bad haul if I say so myself.

[quantum]

I tend to do the same thing with my immediate family.  I ask them not to surprise me with anything, so I don't end up getting something I'll never use.   We would go shopping for our presents together.  I have no problem waiting for boxing week, to save a few $ for my present.

[richard black]

I got a woolly hat from a very dear friend who must have psychically intuited that I lost one in Goldsmiths College only a couple of weeks ago. And some chocolates from a singer who I ended up being rather short with on account of her apparently terminal inability to decide what she wants in certain musical matters.... I only felt very slightly guilty, to be honest. Oh, and from a friend with a wonderfully bizarre sense of humour, a rather frightening-looking tropical fruit that I haven't yet got round to investigating - if I suddenly stop contributing here it will be because it was after all not suitable for human consumption. It sure as hell doesn't look as if it is.

[thalberg]

I got a book on Stradivarius (a pet interest of mine), and a book on music and fashion (written by a professor of mine) and a bag of authentic italian noodles and a jar of pesto sauce.  And a MacBook (huge surprise from my parents.)

[dinosaurtales]

I got some Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.

I thought it rather strange.

Thal

Wow.  Somebody must like you!

[mephisto]

This little baby.

[pianochick93]

ooh, pretty.

[chopininov]

I got a book on Stradivarius (a pet interest of mine), and a book on music and fashion (written by a professor of mine) and a bag of authentic italian noodles and a jar of pesto sauce.  And a MacBook (huge surprise from my parents.)

I have a Macbook
Did your parents go all-out and pay $200 more for the black one?

[gymnopedist]

Ravels (unposthumous) violin sonata, the four-hands version of Sacre, and Milhauds Ronsard songs. A bunch of books, among them a new biography of Richter which i'm looking forward to reading.