Happy Birthday to Me

A little under two score years ago I was born on this date.
What I want… a good car; the mortgage paid off, or at least the mortgage shortfall with the house being sold; a new, good job in the Phoenix area (bonus if it is actually in the Prescott area); enough to put a deposit on a new home in said area, with the job making enough to pay the new mortgage… Ron Paul to be President… Sara and Ari to be healthy and happy (well… me too)… everybody to love ellipses… ;) Okay, maybe not so much that last one.
Product wise what I want:

Camera: A Hy6 camera system, well, okay, perhaps just a good Digital SLR as the Hy6 would be very expensive indeed (I can find no firm answers on that). The Hy6 is a “hybrid” medium format camera system. It can switch between a digital back and a film back. In terms of film backs, it can use two different sizes, with one of those sizes being able to go in either portrait or landscape mode, giving you essentially 3 format choices in film. Seriously, a Digital SLR would be very good, though even a decent Cannon point and shoot digital would be good seeing how my old Powershot A75 is dead.
Telescope: A Celestron CGE 1400, perhaps one with Fastar… Okay perhaps too expensive again (over $6,000 for each), the 11″ in the CGE series is a little over $4,000 while dropping down to the 11″ CPC series is about $2,700. Or course even the 8″ CPC would be good… Those prices do not really include a good lens selection or dew covers…
Notebook: I could really use a good laptop/notebook. Specifications? Well, that is a bit harder to decide…
Computer: None right now. I want to wait for a few developments in motherboards first, and the only real thing keeping my PC from running games as good as it could is the cheap video card. Now when DX10 games comes out that will be a different story…
Clothes: I really need a new wardrobe. Jeans, dress clothes and dress casual shirts especially. A good suit as well for interviews.
Fun Toys: A radio controlled electric Helicopter. A radio controlled sailplane. A new HDTV, very picky here, there are very few flat panels that make the cut with most of the choices being LCoS based rear projectors (no DLP). XBox 360 Elite… or even a regular XBox 360 Premium (not the Core, which does nobody any good). A Nintendo Wii.

About Brian A. Thomas

I am the father of Ari and Sidd. I am the owner and administrator of this site.
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