black friday.

Market Square

The ice skating rink opened up on Market Square today. I love ice skating. I would love to take a certain Lulu to the rink, but alas, she is in Pflugerville, Texas and I am here in Ktown, Tennessee. Oh well-I guess I will just have to settle for getting drunk at the pub and watch all the happy people ice skate, while the other drunkards and homeless people look on. One of these days, I'll fulfill my cheesy dream of ice skating with the other tourists in Rockefeller Center in NYC. Maybe stop by the Today Show window and profess my love to Matt Lauer with a big hand painted sign. Head down to Central Park and hang with the joggers. Sigh.

The big news of the week was the fact that The Knoxville News Sentinel (our news paper) weighed in at a hefty 5 pounds, due to all of the sale ads. Crazy people camping out in front of Best Buy to get a $250 laptop, my nephew being among them. He arrived at around 9:30pm on Thanksgiving night and there were almost 200 people in line. So, instead of trying to beat that crowd, he decided to head down to Circuit City to camp out for a $399 laptop. More money, less people in line. I think it's ridiculous. Who needs a laptop-or anything else, for that matter-THAT bad? And the whole Wii & Playstation 3 hype. Seriously, can you not wait a month longer to get one instead knocking people out and stealing their hard earned money to play a fucking video game??? Granted, I cried when my PS2 was stolen-my brother replaced it (thank you, Brent) but, really, I can and will keep the PS2 until it will not work any longer. And even then, I may not replace it with a new system. I could care less about better graphics and all the extra gaming crap that comes along with the Wii and PS3. Just give me Twisted Metal 2 and all of the Tomb Raider games, maybe some Cool Boarders and I'll be satisfied. Even my awesome Intellivision system with Burger Time, Pitfall and Space Armada (which my dad sold at a yard sale, sadly) would be just fine with me.

My friend Jerry wanted to get one of the new bedazzled Elmo dolls and resell it on EBay for a profit. I don't know exactly what the dolls do, but I will tell you this-if I had a kid who wanted one, it would be shit out of luck. I wouldn't pay a dime over retail for an Elmo toy, especially at Christmas. Who would want to spoil their child like that? Veruca Salt, anyone? Yes, it would be nice to have some extra money, but not at someone else's expense. Although, now that I think about it, if people are stupid enough to spend that kind of money on a doll their kid(s) will play with on Christmas day and then throw in the closet never to be played with again, they they deserve to be ripped off. Where can I get one of those Elmo dolls?

I have a nasty cold. So I'm going to watch some Harry Potter flick for the 10,000th time and knit my sick ass off. Got another order today for a scarf. I hope my hands don't draw up from arthritis before I can finish all of the orders due before Dec. 25th.