Turkey day distractions
Turkey day come and gone, and its back to studying. I keep telling my self that this will be my last holiday season spent buried in the books, but it doesn’t really help much on the stress relief factor. This year we invested in a brine bag and some seasonings for the turkey, I think it made a big difference than in our past attempts. I also did some honing up on my carving methods and was able to clean up the turkey pretty well. Practice makes perfect I suppose.
Went to the local best buy to buy some toner for my printer and decided while I was at it, I should see if there were any decent post-black friday deals. Never being the one to camp out the night before, I instead just moseyed in a few days later and found a pretty good deal on an ipod for Hana. I had been hoarding best buy reward certificates for a while so I ended up not paying much out of pocket at all for it. I figure it has been at least a year or so since the model came out, so I was not paying brand spanking new full price for it (I’m still working with my 1G shuffle). I couldn’t help but notice that store was pretty much empty, something that was not true in the years past. No doubt for every crazy consumer willing to trample over people in front of them at 5am there are quite a few others that just decided to take it easy and stay home.
Another distraction from the turkey day festivities was the terror attacks in Mumbai over the weekend. It makes me cringe to think about what might be coming around the corner, with the media already blasting the reports 24-7 and bringing in terrorism experts who point to another middle eastern country which happens to have been mentioned frequently as a potential military target by our new president-elect. A couple things came to mind as the coverage went on, first the frequent reference to the attacks as India’s “9-11″ and secondly that the coordinated nature of the attacks were linked to OBL. True or not, I kind of think its too soon to be making connections, but that might be too late already to plant a seed in the American consciousness.
Who knows, another middle eastern war in 2009? I’m still trying to figure out how we’re going to pay for all of this. And find the fresh troops. And prepare for the eventual blowback.