Boxing Day Blowout!
| December 28th, 2007At 5:50am on Boxing day my alarm went off. I thought to myself what could this possibly be then remembered that I set the alarm earlier that morning at about 1. I lay there thinking should I go or should I stay? Well it’s Boxing Day; a once a year time for a blowout deal…
Next thing I know I’m in the car on my way to Future Shop. It opens at 6am and it’s currently about that. I got there and I wished I had a digital camera; the line was enormous and in the hundreds. I then thought to myself alright it’s only about -5 celsius so that’s about as warm as it will ever get for this and you’re already there. After about 15-20 minutes I finally enter in the madness.
I missed the best deal they had going on laptops but managed to get an HP, Intel Centrino dual-core 1.5ghz with 2gigs of ram, more hard drive space then I’d ever need and a few other extras at $300 savings. Major drawback was that it had Windows Vista preloaded. I also picked up a webcam that also has audio, a printer for $20 and then on the way I out being caught in the madness splurged and bought a digital video camcorder. 7.1 megapixels and films video in HD. It’s the Canon Powershot TX1.
I figured how many more times in life will I say I wish I had a camera and at the end of the day memories are priceless so after some initial buyers remorse I’m thrilled with the camera. I may be returning the PC though as the keyboard doesn’t have a standard sized shift key on the left. Some would say who cares but when you type as fast as I do having a function key doubling as the right hand side of a shift button I normally press is a huge factor! Also the first time I loaded it… It froze and then the screen wouldn’t display lol. I had to unplug the battery after charging all day for it to work again. Regardless of cause it wasn’t a warm fuzzy I’m glad I splurged on this type feeling.
Finally got out of the store and back home. Two hours later when the fatigue started kicking in I headed for some breakfast at Cora’s. It’s a chain that sells overpriced breakfasts and lunches but mainly breakfasts. I eat one of the larger breakfasts and I just bought a new digital camera so I took a photo of it for you below. It was delicious despite being a polar opposite of what was supposed to be the plan for the day. The plan which was poorly implemented was eat to light and try and get back on track after the holidays.
I hope everyone had a fun and safe holiday season. I also hope some of you took advantage of the shameless consumerism to be had on boxing day!
I am now not only wanting to price out a new computer, but starving as well after reading this post! Great post! I think the Future Shop lineup is a pretty standard Canadian tradition for Boxing Day. I did it too, for a $20 memory card. lol And by the way, calories don’t count during the holidays. ;-)