Friday, November 25, 2005
Black Friday turning into Gray Friday
How is everyone doing today? Hopefully everyone is recovering from stuffing themselves with food yesterday. I ate quite a bit, but not as much as years past. I'm still up north so, this is a remote update. I decided to change my profile picture back for a little bit, but the eye may pop up every once in a while! I still want to find a new picture. It's one of the evil results of being the guy behind the camera...you aren't in many pictures.Did anyone go out shopping today? I used to always scour the ads, and go out and get some deals the day after Thanksgiving, but not the last two years. The ads just haven't been too hot. I couldn't even force myself to go out and buy something this year. I came close to ordering a video card, but that was online.
I think that the decline in "good" deals is due to the Internet. There are a lot of good deals in the ads, but most of the "deals" are about the same price that I could get them online for. So, the "deals" are mainly there for the non-Internet people. Or, perhaps maybe it's just me and I don't need anything that bad to get up at 4am, stand inline for an hour and brave 10 degree weather for. Who knows, but I kept my butt in bed until work called.
Yep, I couldn't get out of work today, they called and needed some help, so I ended up working remotely for two hours or so. Oh well, it happens.
I'm eating lunch with WS today, we are probably going to go to Hacienda. It's a pretty good tex-mex restaurant in South Bend. They have one of the best wet burritos anywhere. Amanda and the rest of the girls are out doing wedding stuff.
Not a great update, but it has to suffice...I have to get ready for lunch!
**EDIT** 11:24am
So, I'm sitting watching TV and one of those cheesy lawyer commercials comes on. The guy is sitting talking in front of a blue screen and a car driving is in the back ground...the dialogue goes something like this:
"Recently I was driving while my son was in the car behind me. I'm looking in my rearview mirror and suddenly he swerves off the road and hits a pole. His car rolls over numerous times (graphic moving on screen). I get out of my car and run to his as it goes up in flames, inside the car I hear a voice 'I'm ok dad' (show wrecked car). Because my son had his seat belt on his life was saved that day, so we ask you to buckle up."
After watching that I bet that the lawyer was pissed off that he couldn't sue anyone about the crash. His law office is one of those ambulance chasers where they represent you if drink gasoline because there was no warning, or you stick your tongue in a light socket.
After writing this I don't think its as funny/ironic as it was when I saw, but what the heck, I'll keep it anyway's.
