a holiday lesson for us all
Friday, November 30th, 2007Yesterday I renewed my vow to not shop at any major stores until after the holidays. I ordered an external hard drive to back up our old computer online and for some stupid reason decided to use the in-store pickup option. If you aren’t ordering something that you’re pretty damn excited about and don’t intend [...]
this is why i’m not a hero
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007When I was little, our Christmas gift one year was a Nintendo. The original Nintendo, not this fancy Wii or 64 or whatever. (I probably just totally embarrassed myself there among fellow geeks because I did not know that the coolest gaming system is like, duh, the Nintendo 10,000.) We only had one or two [...]
bigfoot shops at the gap
Monday, November 19th, 2007This weekend the whole family ventured to the outlet mall. Whereas most outlet malls are shopping mirages in gigantic deserts of parking lot, and if you park on the outskirts of the lot its a good mile to the store, this outlet mall is the opposite. It has the parking equivalent of your driveway. Around [...]