re: What did you get your dad for Christmas??

Getting my dad a new spinning reel. He's used baitcaster his entire life and is just starting to see the benefit of a spinning reel. The only spinning reel he has looks like it got drug up from the bottom of the bayou.

A visit to the family tomb on Christmas Eve and flowers for my grandmother who is there.

Last Christmas, my father told me what a huge disappointment I was. It's kind of his annual ritual, but this time I outsmarted him by drinking way too much before he told me. So when he got up in front of the family to let me know how much better his life would be without me, I came at him full throttle with fists flying. We tussled around for about thirty seconds before we both got tired, being the heavy smokers that we are, and then the heart-attack came. Now Pop is now stranger to heart-attacks, this would be his fourth, but for whatever reason this one was bad. And no matter what people tell you, they don't get easier. So long story short, we spent Christmas day in the hospital which isn't too big a deal since the food wasn't that bad and we made it there in time for "It's a wonderful life". But for the life of me I can't remember what gift I gave him that year.


So I don't know, a tie maybe?

My sister, brother and I all got together and ordered a brick gift package from the National WWII museum with our grandfather's (his dad's) name inscribed. You get a book and a few other things with the purchase.

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Got him a record player with a few vinyls. Led Zeppelin, The Doors, CCR, Fleetwood Mac, and the Grateful Dead. Hasn't had one since he was a kid and would never buy himself something like that. Gonna bring back a ton of memories from when he was younger.

Ancestry.com subscription. He's into that kind of stuff.

My parents hate spending money at restaurants. Usually get them a giftcard to Ruffino's...they love the Sunday brunch there.

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Wow. Well done.