One holiday down, one to go. I do kinda like turkey-day though. But then, I like just about everything associated with the sport of gluttony. I’ll try my best to recap the long weekend. I’m in something of a funk though, so don’t expect much. The specter of the next holiday, with all its parties and shopping and driving everywhere, is hanging over my head like a black raincloud. Humbug.<\/p>\n
We celebrated Thanksgiving out at Mom’s this year. Awesome meal; Roasted turkey, stuffing, noodles, ‘taters, corn, pie… You know the drill. I DO like Thanksgiving food. Little “carb heavy” perhaps, but who’s counting. I made the slight error of taking Gabe out there with me, on the premise that nobody likes to be alone on the holidays. I thought I could stick him out in Mom’s big fenced-in garden and just give him a few toys to keep him occupied. That lasted all of about 20 seconds. Little bugger can climb chainlink fences like a monkey. He ended up tied to a rope on the back porch and he did OK there… As long as I went out and played a little fetch with him every 30 minutes or so. He was diggin’ the fetch game on the 3 acre yard. After the feast, we headed down to Todd’s apartment for the annual Plaza lighting ceremony. This is the first year in his new location; Big upgrade from the last place. We had a perfect view from his windows, no need to go down and mix it up with the mob. He didn’t have any lunchables out this year though… What’s up with that?<\/p>\n
Friday was a bit of a disappointment. I am a big fan of the “Black Friday” sales, see. As long as I can remember I’ve been out there in the wee hours, standing in line with a bunch of dorks so I could save $4 on some odd item that I don’t really need. Then we all circle up at work and compare “bargains”. Something of a ritual. I just couldn’t get motivated this year though. First, CompUSA messed me up by changing their opening to midnight, instead of 6:00 like it usually is. That earned them a boycott. My second choice was Microcenter, but they didn’t put their ad out on Thursday like they were supposed to. So, I just said screw the whole thing. I dragged in to Microcenter around 8:30 just to say I went, but it wasn’t the same. You gotta be there at 4:00 in the morning, or it just isn’t Black Friday. All the same, I picked up a pretty good load of junk. I got a new pc case, power supply, wireless antenna, a few keyboard\/mouse sets, 100 blank dvd’s, a backpack, and some other crap I’ve already forgotten about. It’s a rather odd assortment considering all I wanted was a hard drive. But, there weren’t any good deals on drives and I didn’t want to leave empty-handed. The downside of my laziness was showing up at work for show-and-tell. Everybody else had 19″ LCD’s, Tivo’s, laptops, and I’ve got friggin’ blank DVD’s. Embarrassing.<\/p>\n
Saturday was spent kind of winding down. Aside from taking Gabe on an exceptionally long walk, I didn’t accomplish much. I went and hung out at Todd’s for my evening entertainment. In true bachelor fashion, he provided cigars and a bowl of dry cereal to snack on. Oh, and grapes. The cereal and grapes didn’t fill me up though, so Doni took me to Hoopers for a burger later.<\/p>\n
Sunday isn’t even worth mentioning. The storm shut us down. I did buy a new cordless drill, and tried to put a few holes in the brick wall of the TV room. Didn’t go too well, much like every other thing I’ve ever tried to do around the house. I got one finished, but could only get about 1\/4″ into the second one. Either I ran into an exceptionally hard brick, or the $5 drill bit they sold me was only good for one shot. Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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