Yesterday’s plans to go to Higgin’s Faire were canceled once we realized how far it would be to drive… about two hours each way… so Jenny and I have decided to have a “Girls Day Out,” we met up at 11 am at the Cambridge side Galleria.
We went to nearly every store and played Pogs at KBToys. I hadn’t seen Pogs since I was in elementary school, I was hoping they’d stay that way. I also spotted some Trolls, and what Jenny referred to as “radioactive care bears” (they glow). We also fondly remembered out My Little Ponies, and wondered why they’re bringing back all the 80/90s toys. Is our generation getting nostalgic and feeling the need to buy similar toys for the children? Let them play with something new, don’t try and force your childhood upon them!
Today, Gavin and I went back because I had forgotten to bring the things to return with me on Saturday. It happens. After returning the stuff, Gavin and I went to the Apple Store… why? Because we could. There Gavin managed to embarrass one of the sales guys by explaining that the hard drive needed to be partitioned into three sections so that the different systems could have files transferred between them –I was rather lost, and the sales guy looked rather crushed.
The sales guy redeemed himself by fining us a USB2 Hub and helping Gavin decide that he wanted the little thing that lets us watch HDTV on the computer.
After lunch we went on to Target where we spent under 20 minutes (we didn’t want to have to wait another HOUR to catch the bus home) and got some poster frames… although we’re going to have to keep looking, we’ve got some rather odd-shaped posters.
When we got home, Gavin plugged in the little box… it’s about an inch thick and two inches by three inches, then we found World Cup Soccer and Gavin danced around the office at the “prettiness” of the HD image. We have 17 stations, several of them PBS, and they all come in crystal clear beautiful HD, even the commercials look beautiful, so we watched France and Korea tie 1-1.
We had a good deal of fun rewinding, pausing, fast-forwarding and muting it, it has a little remote control and everything. We can now watch Masterpiece Theater in HD. Hahahaha!
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