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FYI: Not a golf.

I have to say, I did hold out for a long time to get on the LOST train. I initially wrote it off as a bad faux-survivor. I was SO wrong. I cannot wait for LOST to come back on. Krista, Britny and I watched all 4 seasons last summer on a whim, and are now officially hooked. Unfortunately, all we had were the DVD’s, so we could watch everything in order, one after each other and as many as we wanted. This led to many a night starting at 8pm with an episode, and turned into late night into am marathon sessions of this amazing show.
Anyways, check out some youtube stuff if you are not familiar with this show. but I warn you, the best way to watch lost is just to get the first 4 seasons on DVD and sit through them all. Trust me, it is worth it.

Lost in 8:15

Lost Starter kit:

So, I’m sitting here at my desk wondering what this new phone is gonna be like and I have to say, it is a bit better than I thought. I am able to type relatively quickly on it with minimal mistakes and I am not really trying very hard. my fingers are finding the keys pretty easily. I do want to mention that this is the first phone i have had with a full keyboard. I couldnt even begin to imagine how long this would have taken to write had I just been on my regular 1-9 number pad. Also, did you know that i am typing all of this out in a picture message? All of this. And I am only up to 593 letters out of 1000. what a cool thing to know. I guess ill go now. the phone is starting to be a little slow with catching up with my typing. that is just a bit annoying, but I guess a good sign that I can keep up with the kids and their texting eh? Ok, time to go. last letter count: 894. -retrop

Maybe time to start something new, lets give this a shot…

So I think today is the day! Krista and I are off to what will hopefully be her last app. Stay tuned!

So, what did you kids get for Black Friday 2008? I picked up mostly older games I missed the first time around because I either didn’t have the system to play it on, or my desktop wasn’t up to snuff. The list is as follows:

Around 8am, I started online.I got a DLink Wireless router for$19.99 from newegg.com. Free shipping. Score.

I got a Western Digital 640GB MyBook external hard drive for 55 bucks shipped ftom staples.com after a black friday deal and a$15.00 coupon I had. I needed something larger to store my …AHEM… growing movie and tv show collection that is living on my desktop.

For my finale online before braving the roads and stores today, I had to get something for Krista’s brother’s kids out in Kansas. so a quick visit to amazon.com yielded an adequate Christmas present for all 5 of them. They will be recieving 2 Wii games plus WiiPlay that come with an extra Wiimote. Now, It may have not been a black friday deal, but I was able to get them all of this, plus shipping to Kansas for about 20 bucks less than I would have just by buying them at retail here. Warms the cockels of my heart it does. Too bad they will be getting all this stuff around 3 weeks BEFORE they unwrap their new Wii on Christmas.

Around 11am the 3 of us headed out on the road. I had a very short list of stuff I wanted, but alsowanted to see if I could get lucky with anything else. Last year I lucked out and snuck into Best Buy at noon and snagged the last 22″ Samsung monitor for $150.

We stopped at Gamestop first. Now I know, I know. People hate on Gamestop all the time, but I wasnt about to let them sucker me into lame refurbished Xboxes or replacement plans on stuff. I wanted and got Samba De Amigo and Rayman Raving Rabbids for $19.99 each. not that big of a deal on Rayman, but half off Samba De Amigo isn’t bad.

Went to Target to return some stuff, they didnt really have anything I would consider a deal anyways, so we left there and headed to the Black Friday Mecca… Best Buy.

There I just wanted 2 things. Assassin’s Creed for PC for $10 cause I never got to play it last year, and a Wii game for my parents for $10. Brit and I walked in, went right to the racks and found both. No drama. Here it is, 12:30pm on Black Friday and all is quasi-calm.  I got what I wanted and got out. a quick stop at Michael’ss and Dick’s Sporting Goods and we called it a day.

All in all, a pretty productive day. Now, I wasnt killing myself over $200 laptops, or$15 DVD players. I didnt even need any 50″ HDTV’s. So maybe im a little jaded in my after thanksgiving buy-a-thon. But either way, I feel I made out decently.

Then again, there is always next year for the crazy flat screens…

In the display case at Target on Black Friday.

Why is it snowing?

well, its 2pm. that means im off on the journey that is the trip to h2o. should be fun, seeings how i havent gone to any shows this year. ill be bringing my car, sad as that may be. and with the recent news of the new mkiv gti, this just may be the end of my vr6 fun with it. ill have to see tho…

anyways, ill be taking pics with a slamming sony dslr, so hopefully ill have some good stuff for the website coming soon.

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