People who know me well, know that I’m a big lover of Best Buy. Well, actually, I’m a big lover of electronics, and Best Buy is the electronics store in my area*. I get so giddy walking up to the door under that big yellow tag. I went there today to look at a couple of cell phones before I bought a new one. That’s it. Just to look. I came out with a new alarm clock with better features than my previous one**. People also know that I love to go and hug my favorite electronics equipment that I don’t own yet. Right now, I typically visit the plasma televisions. Tonight, I got caught by a salesman hugging a Panasonic 50-inch HDTV ready plasma tv. He tried to sell me the floor model of that tv for $5000, which is almost 50% the price of the non-floor model. The floor model didn’t have any dings in it that I saw. It wasn’t all grubby from people like me who go up and hug it. There are other brands that I think have a better picture quality, but none of them were 50-inches for $5000***. However, I have my eyes on a getting a new car in a couple of months, and don’t need a $5000 credit card balance to show up on my nice credit report right before I apply for a car loan. I do have to admit, as I was walking up to pay, I wanted to fling my alarm clock aside and run back into his arms yelling, “I’ll take your 50-inches! I’ll take it!”

Oh, how I love electronics.

On an unrelated, but yet related, note, my niece, Madisyn, just sent me an IM. She said “xfghkhjfsfgyimgjg.” I don’t know what that means in 2.5 year-old speak, but it looks like something she would say.

*Although, I’ve been told to visit Nebraska Furniture Mart, which I haven’t even though I drive by it everyday going to and from work. Yeah, I know it says “Furniture” but it has everything.

**Instead of picking a number to set the weekend sleep and never remembering whether 1 corresponds to Monday or Sunday and always having to dig out the manual only to find out it is 0 and I still don’t know if it is Sunday or Monday, I now just set the date. So, if I set my alarm to only go off during the work week, it knows by the date. Not only that, I have the additional options of setting a weekend only alarm, so I can have it go off at a different time on the weekends. I now have a sleep volume, so I can go to sleep to the radio at a soft level and still have it blaring when the alarm goes off. It also has a battery indicator so I know if my back-up battery is still alive. The radio tuner is now digital and has memory buttons. What it doesn’t have is a CD player that plays mp3s. The cd player in the old one didn’t either, so I’m not missing anything. It also has three alarms, but the alarms are based on what you want to wake you up. Alarm 1 uses the CD player or buzzer, and alarm 2 uses the radio. So, I can set the radio time for 4:30 am M-F, and the CD/buzzer one for Sat and Sun at 8:00 am. The 3rd alarm is nature sounds, which makes it totally worthless. Who in the world could wake up to “Forest Spring?” “Summer Breeze” sounds just like static. I have accidentily tuned out the radio station thinking it was the volume, so the alarm was just static when it went off. This did not wake me.

***Yup, I said 50-inches of hot, screaming, plasmatic goodness for only $5000.