Aah holiday's end

Well, Thanksgiving weekend is done here. My fridge kinda looks like a war zone with all the leftovers jammed in there. Good times were had though. Hachi came over for the holiday and we stuffed ourselves silly with food, then drink, then monopoly with my Mother. Yea, kinda sounds lame, but the Monopoly board was the Special Edition Here and Now Monopoly with tons of pieces and the credit card swipe machine; which is awesome when you can't do math after a few drinks.

Friday was kinda scary. Went Black Friday shopping with Hachi, her brother, and his girlfriend. Way too many people in cramped spaces for my taste. Got most of my Xmas shopping done though. I do have to say that Best Buy sucks though. We went in there hoping to get some great deals using the "price matching" art of shopping where you carry around ads from other stores and use them to bargain with the clerks to get the lower prices like other stores have. It is a real neat way of shopping. Our group picked up a few games and a wireless keyboard/mouse combo. The games were priced at other stores for $10-15 as compared to Best Buy's $25-35 price; a good deal when matched, yea?

We all got to the checkout and attempted to price match. The clerk at the register was getting ready to match the prices, but apparently she was new because she stalled, looking at her screen. A supervisor of some sort (put in charge of getting the games from the storage for the customers) came by to get the games that we had chosen only to squirt a heavy load of funblock all over the smiling faces of our group. First the keyboard/mouse combo I picked up was coming up as the wrong price (the rack said $40 it rang up at $79) he was cool enough to go and look into the price mix only to come back and tell us that we made an error and that he "could not find where the keyboard in question was originally," nor could he "see how we could think the price was what we claimed it was." So no keyboard. He rubbed the funblock in deep when he informed us that Best Buy does not do price matching on Black Friday, just Black Friday. He also claimed that no other store does price matching on Black Friday either, which was crap (we had just come from Wal-mart where we got a kick ass deal with price matching). We told him about Wal-mart, but he stood his creamy shit ground. So no games, he just screwed his store our of at least $100 of profit. A spit in the bucket, maybe, but that $100 he cost, plus what it cost the company to pay him to be a douche bag.

Saturday and Sunday consisted of school work and work work. Nothing too fun, other than Hachi coming over to do her work and watch Gilmore Girls with me, eat major noms, play with our dog, mess around with WoW toons, and be amazed by the beginning of Mass Effect 2. Enough for now, I need sleep.

Final Thought: Cranberry wine is not a good follow-up for vanilla egg nog. High acid wine needs high acid foods.