Geeking
Nala and I decided to go shopping yesterday to the wastelands that are known as West Broad Street. It's a depressing and economically depressed area, full of retail stores well past their prime. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but we found that not to be true.
The plan was to hit Toys-R-Us, and maybe Media Play. Well, we threw in Circuit City for good measure.
Boy was that a bad idea.
Circuit City at West Broad sucked ASS. Why? The store had a bad selection, poor customer service (usually they're too attentive), and messy shelves. When I did finally find the computer keyboard section, they had 2 on display and only 3 in boxes on the shelves. Shelf tags were there for a dozen different models, but there were only 3 kinds.
That should've been our clue to skip the rest and head north to some real stores. But, we proceeded undaunted to Media Play.
Let me say that the West Broad Media Play has always been the worst in the metro area, but sometimes has some really good deals in their action figure section. This was no disappointment, but an overpriced DVD and CD inventory have driven all the customers out of this store, and along with it, the desire to clean. Nothing was in the correct bin, and the store's floorspace literally was half empty. And then the poor tard shat himself, I think. He kept shouting "Help me!", and on our way out I smelled poop. His guardian asked for a mop, bucket, and some paper towels.
Next was our main destination, the West Broad Toys-R-Us. Crossing the parking lot from Media Play to TRU, we noticed the lack of care in plowing the lots, the collapsing storm sewers, and the lack of cars in the parking lot. Again, upon entering the store, we immediately faced a disheveled inventory.
But, I did find two new 4-packs of Batman Animated figures, and a huge inventory of the other later issues.
Online, I found my Battle of the Planets "civilian" Princess at Tower Records, and a pearlescent painted Mark figure from the San Diego Comic Con on Ebay. This morning, I ordered my USB kvm switch from thenerds.net. Later, I'll be trying for a Battle of the Planets pearlescent Jason exclusive figure, and probably a new keyboard.
And, have you seen THIS?
Class Notes: Layering and Pointers: 2 different ways to implement components.