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Holiday Party
I had to miss my employer’s holiday party tonight due to the bad weather. The party was at SentryWorld in Steven’s Point. I was a little disappointed, but driving conditions were absolutely terrible. We started out for Point but quickly turned around when we realized how bad it was. It would have taken hours to get there driving ~30 mph on the highway anyway.
Oh well, perhaps next year.
December 1st, 2007 
Tags: Weekend at Wendy’s
Christmas came and went so fast. I took Thursday and Friday off last week, so I had a nice, long 5-day weekend. Thursday was spent vegetating at home while Wanda was at work. On Friday, Wanda and I drove to Hudson, WI to visit her sister Wendy and boyfriend. We were unlucky enough to hit an amazing blizzard on the way. We stayed in a Super-8 Motel for two nights because it was the cheapest rate in the area. The motel was surprisingly pleasant, and the weekend went very well. Wanda and Wendy made their famous Fiala-family sour cream roast, a family tradition. It was quite good, as usual.
We watched the movie, “My Super Ex-Girlfriend.” I thought it was funny, but everyone else seemed to think it stunk. Wendy’s roommate had a cat with a crooked tail. It looked like it was broken and healed in a 90-degree angle. I tried to take a picture but was unsuccessful. It was sad, but the cat didn’t seem to mind.
We also went to the Bloomington Ikea store. It was my first time in an Ikea. If anything would entice me to move to the Cities area, it would be Ikea. Very sweet. We bought some shelves, a picture and frame.
On Monday, we had dinner (“supper” for those of you in Rio Linda) at my parents’ house. My mom made a delicious ham. It was nice catching up with my family. Unfortunately, I got wasted on margaritas and had a killer hangover the next morning.
All in all, a successful holiday with few casualties.
Black Friday 2006
So, was everyone able to get everything on their shopping list today? We didn’t see much in the flyers this year that we were interested in. We did score two 22″ Westinghouse and one 19″ Samsung LCD monitors from Best Buy. Wanda and I both wanted a new monitor. The reason we bought three is because Wanda couldn’t decide between the 19″ (higher quality) and the 22″ (bigger size, more video ports), so we will probably end up returning one.
Let me tell ya’, a 22″ widescreen LCD monitor gives new meaning to the term “desktop”.
My parents also scored a Lenovo (formerly IBM’s PC division) desktop computer with a 19″ widescreen monitor from Office Depot. It has some pretty nice specs, and it was a great deal. I hope it turns out to be a good machine.
WPS Holiday Party 2006
Wanda and I attended a holiday party last night hosted by my employer at the S.C. Grand in De Pere. Dinner featured the usual entrees and was pretty good. After dinner we watched a Christmas musical written and performed by Let Me Be Frank Productions. The show was entertaining and very funny! They are an extremely talented group of people, and the singing was phenomenal. If you’re ever in the Green Bay area and want to treat yourself and significant other, consider a night of dinner theater with Frank’s.
Black Friday 2005
Our Black Friday was pretty good. We got up to go shopping around 4:30am. I wasn’t able to get the $149 eMachine from Best Buy because I got there too late. I thought it would be a nice upgrade for my parents. Perhaps next year. We started out at Circuit City because we wanted to get a 19″ Sony LCD monitor for Wanda, priced at $249 after rebates. We got one, but when we got it home we noticed it didn’t support DVI (not a big deal) and it had a pixel out. We might return it and just get a decent Dell LCD off of eBay.
We then went to Best Buy in Grand Chute. That place was chaos. I left very quickly because their setup was a total disaster. We went to the new Best Buy on the East side of Appleton. That store was much better – it had about 10% of the people in it as the Grand Chute location, and most of those people were in line, so you could browse the store at your leisure. I scored a 120GB hard drive for $29.99 AR and Nero 7 Ultra for $20 AR. We got a few other things, too, but they are Christmas presents so I can’t mentioned them here. Overall, we spent much more than we had intended, but we usually do.
After that, we met up with my brother for breakfast at IHOP. The last time I went there I didn’t like it so much (crowded, lousy table, food was sub-par). However, I think the redeemed theirselves today. The food, service, and table was all very good. The prices were a little higher than Country Kitchen, but it is Appleton (we don’t have a CK in the Appleton area anymore).
After breakfast, we went to several furniture stores to look for a stand for our new 50″ projection TV. We didn’t find much, and the stuff we liked was expensive, but we think we found one at American TV & Appliance that we might get. We’ll see.
One thing to note, it’s like people forgot how to drive today. Hello? It’s Black Friday. Speed limit is optional, and every man for himself. There were a lot of cops out too. You’d think they could give one day a year a break. Note to anyone who feels like sight-seeing and pokey driving at the wee hours of the morning on Black Friday – DON’T. Maybe we should have a requirement to get a driver’s license in Wisconsin where everyone has to live and drive in California for a week. Then they’d learn how to drive. The cops can go to hell for patrolling so heavily on such an important day.
Black Friday 2003
So how did y’all score on Black Friday deals? Shoot me an e-mail and tell me about it. I got a 2.6Ghz eMachine (80GB hard drive, 256MB RAM, CD-RW/DVD) from Best Buy for $199! I also pick up the Lite-on 4x DVD burner for $80 (supports both formats) and a 1000 watt (total) car audio system for $99 (two 10″ speakers, box, and amplifier).
My New Computer
Christmas is just around the corner folks! I can’t wait to try out my new case, new Gigabyte motherboard with 2.53GHz P4 processor, 512MB PC2700 DDR RAM, Mitsubishi 18″ flat panel monitor, and 160GB striped RAID. What are y’all getting?
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