Tis’ the season right? Since Thanksgiving has come and gone, it’s safe to start posting some Christmas type things, and to start off I’d like to present to you a timeless classic, the Peanut’s Theme.
I heard this while I was walking in at Starbucks, and I can’t stop humming it. It’s such a soothing piece, and it more ways than one, calming. We are in the home stretch, and hopefully, the Mayan’s are wrong, and we’ll see past December 12th.
Indie music. Fun, experimental sounds that grab your attention.
I’ve fallen in love (with indie music) and it’s better than before… and this is one of the songs that I recently discovered with Spotify.
Foster the People gained mainstream success in the past year with the song Pumped Up Kicks, but most of the people I know don’t even bother to look into the rest of a band’s music if they like the sound of one song.
Have a listen, bros! To me, it isn’t just an Earworm, but an eargasm as well. Let us know down in the comments section what you think of the song!
Black Friday came and went, and what has become a tradition between Patrick and I, it was a fun, and entertaining way to find some good deals, and just do some people watching. I normally plan on buying any one specific item on black Friday’s, only stuff that I come across, and see it as a steal. We did make a short list based on leaked black Friday ads, and we specifically went to grab those items first before perusing for other deals. I pretty much got most of the items on my list, and knocked off some due to other deals that we came across.
My short list: (Items in Yellow were bought, in Red, it’s still at the store)
best buy
roku hd player $40
windows 8 pro $55
siriusxm onyx $30 (dumped cause of PS3-D Monitor)
walmart
Brave $9 (dumped for Toy’s R Us Deal) (toys r us 15$)
rival hand mixer $4 (sold out)
storage bench $29 (didn’t bother)
home depot
head lamp coast $10
commercial electric led mini work light $4.88 (dumped just because)
husky 2 ton hydro jack $20.00 2x (only bought 1)
Staples
Kingston 120 gb SSD $80 (low end drive, better one can be had from Newegg at around the same price)
lowes
kobalt double drive $20 (only $5.00 savings, can be put on xmas list)
Radio Shack
32gb san disk usb 9.99
klipsch $25
game stop
ghost recon $25 (can wait for it to drop $20.00 in the future)
preowned knect $40 (dumped because of PS3-D Monitor)
All in all, it was a pretty good Black Friday. I was able to pick up a handful of Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars to add to my collection, as well as a Hand Mixer, that was not really on sale.
My plans for buying a TV and a Laptop didn’t really come through, as I didn’t see a deal on a TV that was close to what I was looking for, and Laptops or computers in general seems to be the hot ticket item(s) this year.
Let’s see how I do next year.
Sony PS3-D MOnitor $99.00 – Best Buy (from $188.00)
Roku HD Player $40.00 – Best Buy (from $70.00)
San Disk 32 GB Flash Drive $10.00 – Radio Shack
Klipsch S3 Buds $24.99 – Radio Shack
Head Lamp $10.00 – Home Depot
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Windows 8 Pro $60.00 – Best Buy (from $$80.00)
2-Ton Floor Jack $20.00 – Home Depot
So far the haul for The Big Cheese has not been disappointing. He’s picked up about 200 dollars worth of stuff. I’m not so fortunate, but I’m here as his deal henchman.
Picked up Roku hd player for $40, Windows 8 pro for $60, and a Sony 24″ 3d monitor for $100. Good start so far.
First stop best buy lets see if we can get anything good.
To all our American readers, we at Just Wrote A Blog would like to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, and a big THANKS to all of our followers.
Happy Thanksgiving!
And soon after this post, we shall be going Black Friday Shopping!
This song I first heard sometime ago when it first came out before it got popular. Then I saw the video. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s odd to say the least. It’s an actual community in Philadelphia that has horses.
Enjoy.
Pork steam buns from Ippudo – NYC
In short, EPIC. I seriously do not have the expanded vocabulary to even come up with an adjective to describe on how good this is. All i have to say is if you are ever in NYC, you must give it a go. Oh, and their Ramen’s are also EPIC.
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New Jersey Transit and their genius ideas decides to close down half the platform (Track 5) at Newark Penn Station for some renovation work. I understand the need for that, but they also blocked off a part of where the entrance is to the platform, so it gets bottle necked like crazy coming up the stairs. And what’s worse is Amtrak or whoever is in charge of bringing the trains in to the station, waits a long time to bring in our trains. Massive amounts of commuters, small platform = a recipe for disaster. People push to get to the back area of the platform, and with limited space, it only takes one person to give the right push, and the person in front might have an awkward position, can and will fall to the track. And when they finally bring the train in, it’s a mad rush to get inside the train. There is no order what so ever. Even at NY Penn Station, there are 12 Tracks that the NJT uses, why in the world would you bring a train and have it disembark, on the same track that has a train boarding. You know what happens, a dozen or so people coming off from that train trying to get out while hundreds of commuters trying to get down the stairs. We are all in bad mood already because the train is already late coming in. Seriously, they need to do something about our train infrastructure, it’s a complete joke compared to Europe and Asia, a joke.
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