Several of the stores around here opened up at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, and last night we saw some of the carnage ... er, footage ... on the news. It was incredible. All those people crushing one another in an attempt to get the new toys before they run out. Is a Wii really worth your life?
Don't answer that. Some of you are nodding your heads.
I didn't get out til today, but that was merely picking up some humidifier and vaccuum cleaner filters at Sears. That doesn't count as "shopping", does it? Certainly not "Christmas shopping".
And the video game I picked up for James was really birthday shopping, not Christmas shopping. (Thanks to all you who donated to his "Lego Star Wars 3 for the DS" fund; he's been playing it nonstop since it got into his eager little hands.)
Most of the day was spent with silly little projects, like installing the tachometer in the Toyota, making labels for my Ubuntu distro CDs, backing up the XP CD, wiring James' room down in the basement, and playing more Lego Quest with Adam and the neighborhood boys.
And running over to work (twice) to run some quick little tests.
Still need to get some Thanksgiving photos up. Didn't get any good ones. They're all too dark or too fuzzy or badly (i.e. NOT) posed. Perhaps I should just do like everyone else and dump 'em on to Flickr.com. Mary made some more movies with her camera, mostly of her and her sister's Barbie dolls, but she moves the camera around so much that it tends to cause motion sickness. So don't expect to see any of those up real soon.
Next time I'm going to show her how to mount the camera on a tripod, like Craig and Kelly did, so twenty years from now they can show everyone how completely silly they are.
Especially their boyfriends.
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