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December 17, 2008
Early Christmas
Santa hasn't come just yet, but due to a strange travel schedule, I went ahead and gave Jennifer her Christmas presents from daddy tonight. She got an old-school hard-back copy of Freddy The Pilot. This is a classic where Freddy the Pig uses a WWII surplus Norden bombsight to find money buried in the garden. We read this on our own time in the library grade school at some point...I think it was in the 4th or 5th grade.
Plus, I got her a Yamaha PSR-E303 full-sized 61 key synthesizer. She was thrilled with both of them. She stumbled onto a piano keyboard over Thanksgiving holiday out in Iowa and just couldn't walk away from it. I looked at getting a piano, but you're talking about $400 for a used piano, plus moving expenses, plus tuning expenses so it runs up to about a grand pretty quick.
Plus, not only is it light and in perfect tune, this thing has a two track recorded built in, and a MIDI interface so you can record your music and send the files to the PC. Or send music from the PC to the synthesizer and have it play the music from the computer.
It's pretty tricked out and she sat right down and started playing "Fur Elise", which makes her daddy so proud.
Now, we have to see what Santa brings next week.
Posted by Rob Kiser on December 17, 2008 at 7:33 PM
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