Today is Black Friday. Lots of places have early bird specials to entice people to come in to shop. I vowed years ago to never do the early Friday shopping and held strong until today. My buddy Joel told me about Barnes & Noble having a Black Friday special where they were selling a bunch of signed books and I was interested in a few. I picked out the ones I wanted last night and set my alarm for 5:15am so I could arrive there at 6am when the doors opened. I got there about five minutes before 6 and the place was dark and locked up and not a soul in the parking lot. I checked out the sign on the door and it said they opened at 8am. Man, my first time doing Black Friday and I screwed it up! I drove home and decided to lay down and if I got up at a decent time to go back I would go. I could not fall back asleep so I was able to get up and this time the kids both wanted to go so we all headed back to Barnes & Noble and arrived just after they opened the doors. I picked up the following signed books:
2 Hillary Clinton
2 George Bush
Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy (EL James)
Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice)
Yes Please (First Edition- Amy Poehler)
The Very Fairy Princess Sparkles in the Snow (Julie Andrews)
I called Joel on the way out of there and told him what I got and he said he bought five of the Bush books and said that I should get more. Amy and I went out shopping about a half hour after I got home and I decided to go back and ended up picking up three more Bush books and one more Hillary Clinton book. My intention is to keep a Bush and Clinton and eventually sell the rest… maybe when Clinton announces she will run for office.
When I got home I got an envelope I sent to Matt W (invctrl on SCN) and in it was a Kyle Gibson 2013 Topps Update card. I mailed one to Kyle during the season but he did not sign it for me so I went another route. Matt sent it to me for free although I did send him some money for a latte. Thanks Matt!
