To this day, some forty years later, I have very vivid memories of Christmas morning in 1968. I was all of four years old at the time, and the memories have been helped by a picture from that morning that is displayed in my parents’ house, but there are pieces I remember very well. The picture I mention shows my uncle and I sitting in front of the board game “Ka-Bala”, complete with its glow in the dark eye floating in its ring. Frankly, I have little memory of the game other than taking it into the basement to play since it glowed. What I do remember well is the anticipation I had to get it; the Christmas Eve excitement that Ralphie so well projected in “A Christmas Story”.

So, I never shot my eye out with the Ka-Bala game, and the feeling isn’t necessarily about Christmas, per se. It is really about the anticipation. Everyone has their own “Christmas” for that. Gamers get that feeling while waiting for the download of “Call of Battlefield7: The Stargate Chronicles” to begin. Others wait on the doorstep for UPS to arrive with their new processor. Being that cooling guy, it happens to me when I know something new, different and of impeccable quality is on the way to keep my CPU cool and quiet. Breaking it down that way, it’s easy to see why I see every delivery from Noctua the same way I see Christmas morning.