Blog is a bit blank, a bit of the holidays took my life over there, that and work has picked up again so I'm pressed for time, which is a good feeling.
We had a good time with the two families converging on the house for thanksgiving. Plenty of food was eaten and I managed to bust a door down on the day after thanksgiving.
Crabby was going to Target to snag a Olivia 37inch for cheap at 6Am and asked if I wanted to tag along. I not doing anything at 6AM said "Sure why not..."
Though I didn't want anything at Target, but there were a few things at Best Buy that caught my eye.
The problem was BB opened at 5AM, Target at 6... The hope we had was we could hit BB and run over to Target before by 5:30. But as we pulled up to BB at 4:15 the line was about 100 yards long. After standing in line for 15 mins the line was 200 yards long. So I encouraged Crabby to run to target to get his tv, as he has been waiting for a long time to get this thing and didn't want him passing up a good deal. So I stood in line by myself in the cold, chatted up with the locals and generally had a good time. I'm not a guy who minds cold weather and as long as I had my coffee i was good to go.
It was kind of funny though because I really didn't need/want anything. Most of the stuff on my list was for my mother in law: the noise cancelling blue tooth head sets were half off (reg. 100, on sale for 50), and a LCD picture frame for 50 bucks. I got both of those for her as well as two 2 gig SD cards for 15 bucks.
The one thing I was interested in was an LCD monitor for our computer for 99$. Other than that everything else was sort of bonus.
So the doors opened at 5AM, the line slowly worked its way up and eventually I got in at about 5:04. I went to the cell phone section and picked up two of the head sets (it said 1 per customer but I asked the clerk and he said take 2), then went to the monitors and they had a huge stack of and I picked one up (by the time I left there were none left). I then picked up the LCD picture frame and realized.... I was done... no pushing no shoving, just sort of casually walked, in and got it all.
But I realized the fatal flaw in our plan, Crabby had the car and was still waiting for his store to open. So I had about an hour to kill.
I got a few other deals, but nothing major. Crabby got his TV and we got home before 8AM. All in All it wasn't that bad.
Posted by holtonian at November 29, 2007 01:52 PM