My Life ... well the last two days of it

A short history of my events.
I enjoyed Kat's birthday and Thanksgiving, which has been dubbed BirthGiving. Kat thinks she has had about four BirthGivings during her 28 years of life. We had turkey, which turned out pretty well and a good bike ride. You can get a full update at Kat Fancy.
Today, that is the biggest shopping day of the year, is what I really want to talk about. For work-related reasons, which I cannot really discuss here, I ended up at a shopping mall at 4:30 a.m. I attempted to embark on a sort of Bill Bryson-esque "what the hey is going on here with these nutters and their shopping" investigation. I don't know if it really worked out like that, but I did what I could. Obviously, if you go early enough on Black Friday, you will find bargains. The question is if you would want the things that are being offered at any price. Shoppers were somehow deluding themselves into thinking an Emachines computer didn't suck no matter how cheap it is.
And I did find a few things I would have enjoyed buying at those bargain prices, but the line to check out was just as long as the line to get in. I still had to go to work that day, so I couldn't really afford the time even if I could afford the price.
Sometimes rampant commercialism makes me a little sick, so I'm glad I was going to this thing on an empty stomach. Most people seemed happy and weren't being mean or territorial, but anytime you have long lines that means lots of people and thus the occasional idiot. One woman's exclamation upon seeing how long the line was at Circuit City cannot be printed on this family blog, but it was impressive in its badness.
The one sight that put my fear over the top was seeing a group of women lined up to get inside JoAnn, which for the uninitiated or uncrafty (meaning that you aren't a veteran, since sports anchors are required by federal regulation to refer to veterans as crafty) is a sewing store. JoAnn is a place for quilters, old women and old women quilters. The point of this story is that the line at JoAnn proved that the fabric (pause for laughter) of our society is far too materialistic (pause for more laughter).
The moral: I don't like shopping.
Nice win by the Huskers over the hated western rivals. All I saw from J.B. Phillips - a tight end against whom someone I know has an irrational vendetta - was a false start. Maybe the vendetta is justified?
Also, the Texas loss today could mean Nebraska faces Oklahoma in the B12 championship (I'm going to see if that vitamin reference might catch on. Big 12 sounds kind of lame, but B12, that's like instant energy!). I don't know if the Corn wants to tangle with either of those southern squads, but we'll see. It would be nice to win in Kansas City, although these grind-em-out victories over bad teams seems to only give Billy C more power to dominate his glasses-wearing fiefdom.
I like MoPure. That's his name. It's official. And Zac Taylor is Z-Tac, just like the airport. This is law.
One other thing, certain relation of mine were at this particular grudge match and thus couldn't watch on television, but I promise you that David Norrie the color man (not to be confused with N.O.R.E, the rapper and person of color) was talking about how Adam Carriker could go in the first round of the NFL draft. He praised Carriker's strength, quickness, frame and also, and I'm not making this up, long neck. When did having a long neck become a prerequisite for success as a defensive end. Has anyone measured Julius Pepper's neck? Is it excessively long? Are high schoolers going to begin putting those rings around their necks like African women to addd length and impress the scouts? Does this mean Merton Hanks may make a comeback? Questions abound and only Norrie has the answer.
In other news, have you seen this commercial with the Burger King riding around on a crotch rocket in a video game? I question whether humanity can continue.
The Suns have won four out of five and face the Nets tonight. However, there is a great disturbance in the Amare force. Coach 'Antoni (he gets to be D'Antoni when his teams show they can actually get stops consistently) has had Stat on the bench for the past two fourth quarters. I don't think guys with max contracts are happy to be getting splinters in crunch time.
I think I have more to say but can't remember it all right now. I think I'll be back for more this weekend.