Dec 19
Jeny came over yesterday and had a surprise of foodstuffs in a bag, which she then cooked for me. It was nice and delicious.
Saturday I went Christmas shopping for some hours. While I was out I went to all the stores with Wiis and asked when they were opening, did they have tickets, how many wiis were they getting, etc. I never want anything for Christmas but this year I finally decided I wanted a wii!
The fellow in the electronics department at target said they were handing out tickets at 7 am, opening at 8 am, and would have about 40 wiis. Since people were already camping at 3pm at best buy, target seemed like my best bet. I wanted to show up at 11 (closing), I ended up not making it until 12 or so. I was still #17 in line, so everything was good.
It was fairly warm for a December night, but still not the best 7 hours sitting on the sidewalk.
They came out at 7 am with 16 tickets for their 16 Wiis that they had to sell and sent everybody else packing.
#15 in line said that he worked at EB and wiis came in sets of 3 to the store, so I have no idea what happened to the other two that they should have received (funnily enough there were 18 of us at 7 am who had been there since midnight).
Anyway. That’ll teach me to stop being greedy.
Off to work, things are exploding and I’m easy to blame.
Dec 11
“Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.”
Dec 08
If you have Firefox 2.0 then you can install the Google Finance microsummary generator I just made. If you don’t know what that does, any time you bookmark a GFinance stock quote page (and probably put it on your bookmarks toolbar), it’ll let you choose in the bookmark dialog to show the “Live Title.” The live title updates itself every so often with the newest price for your stock.
