Another Whirlwind Completed
Nov. 27th, 2009 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gonzaiSurvived another Thanksgiving and another Black Friday. Not sure who's bright idea it was to seat me next to the fireplace last night, but I'm pretty sure I'm well done, thanks. It was Stella (the dog)'s best day of the year, as she gets more attention, petting and scraps from me on Thanksgiving than from her entire family in a week+. And I played with the kids for a change, teaching the older ones to play Dominion. More converts :)
Got a head start on shopping yesterday, thanks to KMart having sales on Thursday as well, and finished the job this morning. Except for Office Depot, things were simple and uncrowded and people were nice to each other. Office Depot, well, if the items on the front page are for people with tickets only, it might be nice to say so in the ads. It would definitely be nice to 1) tell your employees that and 2) tell the people standing outside that. And maybe mention that tickets will be given away several hours before the store opens. Most of us just showed up 5:30-6am-ish thinking it was first come first grab, only to find out people who somehow knew about this snagged all the tickets back at 4am. I only missed out on one item (1.5 TB hard drive for $99) but there was a 2TB drive on sale and while it cost substantially more than the 1.5, maybe I don't have to buy another one next year. I hope. But as noted, everywhere else was just fine and other than some CDs for my sister-in-law, shopping is complete. Yay.
Now for sleep...
Got a head start on shopping yesterday, thanks to KMart having sales on Thursday as well, and finished the job this morning. Except for Office Depot, things were simple and uncrowded and people were nice to each other. Office Depot, well, if the items on the front page are for people with tickets only, it might be nice to say so in the ads. It would definitely be nice to 1) tell your employees that and 2) tell the people standing outside that. And maybe mention that tickets will be given away several hours before the store opens. Most of us just showed up 5:30-6am-ish thinking it was first come first grab, only to find out people who somehow knew about this snagged all the tickets back at 4am. I only missed out on one item (1.5 TB hard drive for $99) but there was a 2TB drive on sale and while it cost substantially more than the 1.5, maybe I don't have to buy another one next year. I hope. But as noted, everywhere else was just fine and other than some CDs for my sister-in-law, shopping is complete. Yay.
Now for sleep...
