Well, I CAN HAS BONUS, so purchases were made and arrived around the holiday weekend. Here’s a brief roundup of what came our way.

• Amazon Kindle, a present for Teri who had wanted one for a long time. I might do a mini-review at some point but it’s an interesting device. The electronic-ink screen is gorgeous, looks like the letters are stuck to the glass and it seems easy to use. Biggest downside for us is that there is no Sprint EVDO where we live so can’t download anything wirelessly, makes subscribing to newspapers/magazines sub-optimal.
• AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor 5000+ PC, 4GB RAM, Teri bought this for herself so she would have something reliable to hook the Kindle to. First one was dead on arrival, had to return it for another. First time I’ve seen and touched Vista and I can’t say there is much to be excited about, just another Windows operating system. Different to XP, had to find the things I normally use but for day to day use, seems ok. I installed AVG and within minutes it had found a Trojan horse in one of the pre-installed try-ware programs -wtf?
• Nintendo DS Lite (Cobalt), I couldn’t not have something to play with so got this for the weekend. Been wanting one for a while so had it overnighted from Amazon (yea, for $3.99 shipping on Amazon Prime). I have a feeling it won’t occupy me for long but right now I am enjoying playing with my virtual puppy, Lucky, and training my brain on a daily basis.

I anticipate adding the iPhone to that list in a few weeks but that’s it for the mad spending for now.