Christmas in March

Tony has been wanting a Drobo for a couple of years. I really can't explain what it is so here is the definition via Tony:

A Drobo is a safe and expandable external hard disk device that makes two or more hard disks work together as a single disk. The Drobo provides safety (or "redundancy") for data because the same data is saved to at least two different hard drives at the same time. So if one hard disk breaks (which actually happens relatively frequently), you still have your data on the remaining working hard disk

Anyways, we've never come to agreement on spending that much money on a hard drive. However, after publishing a paper in a journal the University of Dauphine (France) gave Tony an award that had very specific ways that he could spend the money.

Tony ordered the Drobo and it arrived last week. Tony took Leah in the stroller down to the local post office and picked it up. When he came home, he walked in the door and said, "Merry Christmas!" Poor Ben picked up on this right away, thinking that Tony had brought a present that had a toy in it for him. I had to explain to him that this is a present for daddy and that it was not a toy. He still thought it was pretty cool.