I am turning my full obsessive attention on Christmas, heading to NYC Friday. I love giving technology to creative people and seeing it light them up. I’ve got something for my daughter, and I bought a sweet piece of technology for Maria. I have a wife who buys nothing for herself, says she needs and wants nothing, and generally spends nothing, a marked contrast to me. So I love giving her stuff.

She will yell at me, but, I think, love the gift. And she can really use it. I’m giving it to her on Christmas morning in NYC.

Step One: I’ve told her I’m not blogging until after Christmas, and she is not devious like me, so I think she won’t look at my site until then. So I can share this story.

Step Two: I need her online info and passwords to set up the new gift, so I’ve been collecting them secretly for weeks, under the guise of organizing her laptop a bit (she is not interested in the internal operations of computing, and neither, really, and I). So far so good.

Step Three: I needed an hour or so with her laptop (some of you may already be guessing this gift. say nothing, and she surprised me by coming home early and nearly walking in on me. I had to yell “wait, I need some time along with your computer,” and so, as you can imagine, she got suspicious. I thought quickly and told her that I was downloading a Christmas song for her from Itunes. She bought it for a moment, I think, but not really. She is suspicious.

Step Four: I have been dropping false clues all over the place, asking her her shirt and shoe and neck size. Distracting her a bit.

Step Four: I saved some old bags from Target and put the gift in that, so that might also throw her off.

Step Five. I have to get this onto the train to NYC and hide it in a hotel for a couple of days. I taped it so she won’t open it, I am sure. She is not naturally suspicious, but knows my mind too well. I’ll keep you posted.

I love this stuff. Say nothing.