First of all I can't believe that it was at that point already but more so, I can't believe the microsoft programmers had not updated that part of the OS. It really needs a new look if it is still happening all the time.
To make it worse, after starting up in normal mode, the screen was upside down so all the movements on the trackpad were reversed.
The build quality of the netbook itself was pretty nice. I really liked the keyboard and that it had HDMI out. I was my mac mini had that.
I was kind of hoping they would have had the nokia n900
which is the "not phone" (nokia n810) I used to have but with 3g built in. It was sorely missing that before. Its pretty much my dream phone. 
A linux computer/phone with keyboard that is totally open but I am not in the market to invest another $500 into the nokia tablet craze. I already had the n 7710, the n800, and the n810, each of which cost more than $400.
I guess wii is not that popular anymore. I remember I couple christmas' ago when I actually wanted one and there were none to be found. Now it just seems a little outdated to pay that much for.
We also stopped at some xmas store that had so much ridiculous and tacky xmas crap. The craziest of all were the vehicle xmas costumes.
Its weird right? Costumes are not a christmas thing nor a vehicle thing. Who the fuck thought to match those two up. Is it a halloween leftover?
We also got our tree, I am sure (e:matthew) will post all about it.
Arg, the n900 only works on tmobile 3g which puts it out of my range right now, even though buffalo does have tmobile 3g. Maybe I should just switch seeing as I have a new blackberry on verizon coming anyways.
I have seen those car antlers and rudolf rednoses before - on my former hostmom's car in 2006! o_O