The Golden Rule.

Well, ’tis the season, right? I didn’t ask for anything this year (except gifts for kids via Child’s Play Charity, my folks and my grandma each bought the kids a Nintendo Gamecube), and as a result, didn’t get much. Works for me.

I did get one gift from my dad that’s pretty cool, and it comes in two parts. Sweet. The first, wrapped part, was a DVD of Jimi Hendrix live at Woodstock. I opened it up, and after thanking my dad, he said that that wasn’t the whole gift.

Many years ago (obviously), he saw Jimi and the boys play. I don’t think it was Woodstock, but who really cares. It’s Jimi, right? Well, he got a drumstick from Mitch Mitchell (Jimi’s drummer) at that show. It’s been floating around the house, and he decided that it would be cool to mount it in a shadow box and give it to me. And I couldn’t agree more; it is really cool. I’ll take a photo of it and post it up when I do finally get it.

The other gift that I really thought was awesome was my lump of coal at the Big Easy Rollergirls’ Christmas Party. In all honesty, I thought it was fucking hilarious. The other refs got a lump too. We got some candy too, but that briquette killed me.

And outside of the stuff I bought for the roommate, I only bought one other gift: a chandelier for the folks/grandma/family house. It was a pretty hefty chunk of change, but it is absolutely beautiful. I’ve never really been able to buy the folks a nice/big gift, and I’m just glad that I could do it. They’re good people. Anyway, here’s a few cell phone photos of it: