The day after
Thanksgiving there are a lot of sales. Ming spent the night and she and
mom left early to go shopping. Dad left later. Then I got back to sleep
for another couple of hours and woke up about 20:00 or so. Last year
Stephanie went shopping but it was such a mess that she decided not to
do it this year.
For lunch we had turkey chok (rice soup). Very good. I used to not like
chok because rice in soup is just unnatural. This is what happens when
you get a certain food prepared a certain way for years and years. When
it's prepared a bit differently it just feels wrong. It took me more
years to finally like the soup.
Stephanie wants to buy dad a big screen television. He does probably
need a new television, definitely to replace the one in his bedroom
though the one downstairs is good. She wants to buy him something with
HDTV. Mostly we feel for dad since mom took all the old house money and
kept "for investing" leaving dad to pay for the new house pretty much
by himself. It's not really fair.
Once he has a nice television then they need cable or satellite for the
better reception and more channels. Right now they get all the
Sacramento channels but not well. With cable television they might also
get cable internet. It's really annoying that you need a separate
Comcast decoder because they just suck.
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We went out to
Target to get some stuff for Stephanie. Then we went to a used book
store nearby, Almost Perfect Used Books. It's a small used book store,
narrow and long. Shelves and shelves of paperback books all laid
sideways for that little bit of extra space. Kind of cramped. Three
people working today which seemed a bit overkill.
I found two Star Trek novels that I didn't have. Both kind of beat up
with the front covers badly curled. And a bit more expensive than Half
Price Books. But it's two more books that I don't have and it is
cheaper than buying them new and it doesn't matter if they're beat up
as long as you can read the books. That book store sure had a lot of
romance novels.
Tonight we had braised chicken and some sort of oven baked fish for
dinner. The fish didn't turn out great. A bit flavorless in my opinion
though everyone else said it was a bit though for being frozen. The
braised chicken was very good though. I still ate most of the fish
because it was good.
I gave Christopher his Gamboy Advanced back and he's been playing Zelda
2: Adventures of Link pretty much all day yesterday and today. This is
a game he already finished when he had a Nintendo. It's just some sort
of nostalgic trip for him. And this is why you don't pirate old
software because it could be rereleased which is getting more and more
common.
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