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Hilton Head Island discoveries

March 16, 2008 on 6:52 pm | In family, technology | No Comments

Brij, Saloni and I spent the week on Hilton Head Island with Mom (and Jackie, and regular visits from Aunt Betsy and Uncle Ken). It was a great time-off week with a whole lot of nothing going on. Plus Dolphin sitings.

In going over family stories I was struck by one comparison that hadn’t come up before. Many years ago, in preparation for my father’s 40th birthday my family had a savings drive. We squirreled away spare dollars in a coffee can for months, saving up to surprise my father with something he’d never dreamed he would own: the complete, multi-volume set of the OED — the mythical, impressive Oxford English Dictionary.

This is a pricey gift today and was even moreso back in the 1970’s. He was surprised (or at least fooled his adolescent son) and we displayed that shelf-busting set of dictionaries in the living room for years and years.

For my 40th birthday present, I asked my family for… an XBOX 360. It’s also in our living room.