Yesterday was black friday. The busiest shopping day of the year. As a rule for most of my adult life I attempt to avoid malls and most stores between Thanksgiving and New Years. I can buy stuff (gifts, etc) online. I cannot stand the crazy crowds at the store.
Today I got up early to head to the office (yes I had the day off, but jay and I needed to kill some time). Jay had to package some stuff up of his to ship, and we needed to kill some time till we went to my dad’s to fix his computer. On the way we hit the Best Buy near work to check out the “one day only” sales they had. We got there like 11AM and the store was mobbed. We saw how long both main checkout lines were and we were out of that store in 2 minutes.
Jay and I rebuilt my dad’s computer. Didn’t fix his problem. I got the Treo 300 he has to sync 9 out of 10 times. The 10th time (or so) it crashes still. Instead of a blue screen it just reboots itself. I totally removed his epocrates sync software. That crashed the computer all the time. I am trying to convince him to maybe look at a newer palm. The Treo 300 is running version 3.5x of the palm os. My Treo 600 that is not even the newest out there anymore is running palm os 5.2x something. So far he is not ready to change.
We hung out at my parents for a while, saw my niece. She was stingy with the hugs today. Dam kids. She did give me a hug and kiss goodbye. She salvaged her Hanukkah, lucky girl:) We headed back to Long Island City to return Jay’s dad’s car. We hit the white castle. Mmmm white castle. I never go there, but it is good.
Ended up the night hanging out at his place, and then Gretchen, Jay, and I went to see Christmas with the Kranks. it was funny, if not predictable. Nice entertainment. I just got home a little while ago.
Jay and Gretchen are off to hunt for a Super Walmart tomorrow. They are going to do food shopping / Christmas shopping. They wanted me to go, but I was not up for a long car ride. I was out Thursday and Friday, so I want to lay around today (it is early Saturday morning). I know I have no reason to feel this way, but sometimes I feel like a third wheel when hanging around with them. I need a girlfriend, that is probably why I feel that way. I know gretchen doesn’t mind me hanging out (she would tell me if it did bother her), but sometimes I get self conscious and think differently. And since they read this, I wont get sappy!
It is late, and I am not tired. Man my sleep habits are going to be messed up by the end of this weekend…