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Black Friday

I spent most of my working life… working retail so I’m no stranger to Black Friday. I never go out shopping on that day.. once you have worked retail why would you want to. This year was an exception… after cooking (Thanksgiving) for 18 people my wife, sister, brother-in-law and mother talked me into it. (Shopping)

At 11:30 PM we decided to head over to the Outlet stores in Cabazon…. BIG MISTAKE! We thought *cool the outlet center is opening at midnight I bet they won’t be that busy* I couldn’t of been more wrong. About 4 miles before the outlet center we hit traffic and thought crazy must be an accident up ahead. Wrong again… the traffic (dead stop) was ALL for the outlet center. We waited in the traffic for about 20 minutes only going a few feet and then said *fuck it.*

We cruised from there over to Walmart to check out some of there deals. We didn’t have too much of a choice as Walmart is about the only store open in the middle of the night. I wanted to snag a TV they had on special about half off but when we got to the store they had a line. I asked one of the employees how many TV’s (specific sale model) they had and he laughed and said five. So I bailed….

Next stop was Circuit City where there were people with tents camped out in front of the store. At this point I was thinking *shit my wife is crazy for doing this every year.* My brother-in-law really wanted a TV and they had an advertised a 32 LCD” for $474.00 I figured since I was up I better try and get one. I own a lot of TV’s but figured one more in my office on the wall might be nice.

So after waiting in line for one hour (my brother-in-law saved our spot in line for almost 5 hours) I got a new TV for my wall. I also had to take everyone to two different Targets and a Toy’s ‘R Us. It was kind of fun being out with all the shoppers but I’m grateful I don’t work retail anymore. more info here

note: when I was at Circuit City they had a great deal on HDMI cables with a surge protector for $49.95… two days before I bought just an HDMI cable for $120.95 for I was happy to see this special.

I haven’t blogged in a while now… about two weeks I got the keys to my new (brand new construction) 3,000 sq. foot house. Moving always sucks… so much crap to do. I’ve been busy doing crap just about everyday. If I’m not meeting with some contractors then I’m out buying more stuff for the new pad.

Anyway… I will posts some PICS of the new place once I find which box my carmera is in.

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Here is a funny Sexyback parody I found on youtube.com

“come scratch my back”

I have a treadmill in my office this way I can get on it and listen to a radio show.. usually something on Wemaster Radio like Jeremy AKA ShoeMoney.

Anyway… after working out a bit on the treadmill I walked over to the refrigerator and was looking for a water bottle. We almost always have dasni water in our house but on this very rare occasion we were out. I grabbed a tall glass from the cupboard and filled it with ice and walked over to the kitchen sink and filled it up.

My daughter… whom is 6 years old screamed “gross… you can drink that dishwater.” She actually thought the water was not safe for drinking b/c she has always had water bottles. I went into a very long conversation with her about drinking water and how the concept of water bottles is still fairly new… within the last 10-15 years. I’m sure some of the talk went over hear head but I thought it was very funny that she actual thought you couldn’t drink out of the kitchen faucet.

So the past weekend we spent partying it up in Las Vegas. I got a suite at the Venetian Hotel… it was the first time I had stayed there and I really enjoyed the place. The theme of the weekend was birthdays and long island ice teas. Andrew turned 21 and my wife’s cousin Jesse turned 34… *so*

We had to break Andrew in.. just turning 21 but for reasons you can imagine I cannot discuss what actually we did in VEGAS… besides I’m brainwashed by those commercials “what happens in VEAGS…” you know the rest.

The poker room there is very nice although it was hard for them to get high limit… limit games going. If you like no limit there never seemed to be a shortage of games going but trying to get a 15/30 limit game seemed difficult.

Anyway… I would write more but most of the weekend was a long island blur.

I don’t work much these days… so I spend most of my time playing poker or golf. It is still really hot here in Palm Springs so golfing around here isn’t as fun. I’ve been playing a 2-3 days per week up at Oak Valley. On average it’s about 15 degrees cooler up there and the golf course isn’t half bad. Oak Valley is located in Beaumont, California and represents the nicer side of that town.

Here in Palm Springs we can get on a few courses for free. Yes… that’s right some nice course we can walk onto free. but it’s been way to hot for that so we don’t mind driving 30 minutes up the road to play in cooler weather. Golf is a game that is just more enjoyable when the weather is nice.

Next week I think we will be playing a few rounds in Northern California to continue golfing the summer away.

Ok… I wanted to get the Sony SXRD last year when it came out… the picture is unbelievable but the old model had these huge ass speakers on the side that made the TV over 63″ long. So when the new model SXRD KDS-60A2000 came out and I saw the speakers are on the bottom now… I bought it!

Here’s a little about my new toy:

“Full HD 1080p picture quality within a slim, compact design. The Grand WEGA™ SXRD™ Rear Projection HDTV is also equipped with Sony’s WEGA Engine™ system, which minimizes signal distortion to provide you with the best picture , and features enhanced connectivity with dual HDMI (1080p capability) and front component inputs (1080i).”

I bought this over the weekend and yesterday the cable company came by to install my HDTV box. My daughter thinks it’s cool since SpongeBob is like huge now… GTA doesn’t look too bad either… but the best part is it came just in time for football season.

BTW.. the new model is $500 cheaper too

Yesterday I played a round of golf at the Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort. It was probably the coolest day we have had here in Palm Springs in the past two months so good time to play. My son and I played with a buddy named Alan who is a scratch golfer. We all had a decent time even though I still think it’s too hot outside for golf. We didn’t keep track of our scores only who won each hole…. I only won two holes but hey I’m a bit rusty.

The Tahquitz Course is OK… not the best course but not the worse either. I’m sure I would have enjoyed it a bit more if the temp was about 10 degrees cooler. There was adequate water stations along the way so I cannot complain too much.

The GDrive Project has a codename of “Platypus.” Corsin Camichel found a document about Platypus on Writely.com, which is Google’s online word processor.

Basically, it looks like GDrive will be your ultimate storage system for your computer. GDrive’s goal is to Store 100% of your files. Suppose you lose everything on your computer, using GDrive, you can recreate your system. GDrive will allow users to share files and there are sophisticated synchronization features for computers that use different operating systems.

This video had me rolling on the ground… make sure you have your volume turned on when you play this.

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