Call me crazy. Call me nuts. Call me what you will, but I actually set the alarm for 3:45 AM this morning.
What would lead me to do such a crazy thing? Well... some call them early-bird specials. Others call it morning madness. I decided to once again wait in line for an early barn-burning price on some items at the local Micro Center store. My wife thinks I'm nuts, but this year's quest was more for her than anything else. I was on a quest to get my wife a new computer at a bargain-basement price. Not just the computer mind you, but a bundle with a monitor and printer as well.
Now don't think this trip was completely selfless. I did pick up a few items for myself at a great price. A couple of UPSs, a new two-port KVM and a 256MB USB key also mysteriously found their way into my shopping cart as I cruised through the store to pick up the computer bundle.
I knew the bundle would be waiting for me after I perused some other rows since I had the coupon I'd waited for in line at the store 2 hours before they opened. There were only 15 of these coupons to be had. My wife figured I would be the first in line when I got to the store, but she figured wrong. I was number 13 in line. If I'd set the alarm for 4:00 AM, it would have been possible for me to miss the deal. Apparently the line had started at 2:45 AM.
Micro Center makes things easy for you. They had the bundle already stacked into a shopping cart just waiting for me to pick it up. I am indeed looking forward to seeing the twinkle in my wife's eyes as she's enjoys her new computer. The only real downside to this is... the writer's cramp I'm going to get from filling out the 7 (yes, count 'em 7) rebate forms I have to fill out and submit...