Black Friday?

Thanksgiving went well. Very quiet with just the three of us - Scott is, of course, in Europe - he spent the holiday at Zermatt, Switzerland, skiing with a group of friends from the base. He had a good time. After dinner, we went over to Steve's dad's and visited. We took him a plate of food, though he has little appetite these days.

When we went home, we decided to go bowling. $7 for 1.5 hours, including shoes. We got three games in - even with a malfunctioning pin resetter during the third game that basically allowed us to keep trying until we knocked down all the pins. That made Steve feel better anyway.

Another Thanksgiving thing was looking through all the Black Friday ads. They were bigger than the paper itself! All that stuff out there and the only thing I was even mildly interested in was the $20 printer/scanner/copier that Walmart had. I did not (and never do want) to get involved in all those black friday waiting games and crowds so stayed up after midnight to see if the scanner would be put online. It wasn't so I went to bed.

Couldn't sleep well (I think Eric turned up the heat) and woke up around 7. Decided to go out and check again. Yep, there it was - and still available! I put one in my cart and decided to see if a few of the other specials were still available. Big mistake - not 10 minutes later I decided to check out and the printer was now out of stock. Should have checked out right away. Oh well, it is what it is.

Everything turned out ok, though. On Saturday Steve and I went out on some errands, and stopped at Sam's Club. While there, I looked at the printer/scanner/copiers. First I saw an Epson model that was $30. Gave it serious thought, but Steve saw a Canon next to it for the same price. There were none but the display, though - and only one Canon box underneath, a different model with more features. No price. To make a long story short, they discovered the higher end model had been inventoried under the lower priced model and they gave it to us for the lower price. Nice bargain and it works well for us!