That's why I don't, anyway. The one day of the year that I don't use any computing device by choice.

Anyway, I could talk about how awesome the day was, and all the loot I got, and numerous other things, but I'll be talking about one thing, this particular gift I got.

I instantly fell in love with this set when it was announced on here during the downtime. When the forums came back online, I pretty quickly expressed my excitement for it. And yeah, I have it for Christmas. It is glorious. It's a very solid design, and all the features are pretty nifty. It's a really fun model, and very well designed. Most importantly, it basically fits all my interests in some way (60s, music, vintage, cultural icons, red, LEGO, interactivity...) I just can't help looking at it's beautifully bold design.

Probably the most interesting thing is that it took me ALL DAY Christmas day to build it, which has never happened for me before. I attribute this to a few things. One, obviously I had to stop for Christmas lunch and dinner, obviously, as well as watched a couple of Chirstmas specials for things. Two, this is probably the biggest set I've ever got on a piece count basis (1332). Thirdly, I'm very much out of practice. This is the first LEGO set I've got since Christmas 2008 (Vultraz and Takanuva), and more importantly, the first System set since 2005!

But as such, it was a really great building experience, a real time consuming effort and you know you're making something that you will really like...it's quite fulfilling. I'd forgotten how good it was. This won't get me back to buying LEGO sets again, but yeah, a really satisfying experience.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I was tempted to flip the design turnways so that the steering wheel and stuff would be on the right hand side, to match cars that are down under, but I figured for now that would be too much work. It's cool as it is.

Anyway, yeah, so I had a great Christmas, a lot of fun, some truly remarkable gifts (really high calibre on a sentimental level), amazing food as usual, just basically a wonderful time. I'm going into this final week of the year with quite a bright countenance indeed.