polywogsys

So yesterday I stopped at the Game Stop, E.B. Games, Target, and Best Buy for a Wii. No such luck. I got an HDTV converter instead with my http://www.dtv2009.gov coupon. The HDTV tuner could hardly tune anything in. I just barely got 17-1, and some weird lawyer infomercial channel. I needed an antenna for HDTV, the wire out the window is just not going to cut it.
After lunch today I stopped in the Gallery at the Radio Shack to get a small set-top yagi for HDTV (apparently multipath affects the american version of HDTV more than the better European standard - no surprise there - big business money controlling the FCC again). Radio shack was swamped. I left.
On a whim, and since I fear/hate/loath the gallery, I wanted to kill two birds with one stone...

I did a random drop by for the Wii at Game Stop.
I missed it by one hour!
NO!
NO!
NO!

Random drop by at E.B. Games.
YES!
YES!
YES!

So brad and i FINALLY decided that our birthday gifts to each other (considering that were 13 days apart) would be a dtv converter (with the $40 gov't coupon http://www.dtv2009.gov ) and a Wii. Brad wanted to wait until the next revision of the iphone before getting one so it'll prolly be his x-mas gift.
So we biked down to the best buy and were tieing up, when this guy standing on the wall to the best buy, was talking on the phone. In effect he said that he was waiting for a wii. I start to slow down my bike tieing and start to listen while he's talking on the phone then stare, and eventually grin - from ear to ear. He notices that I am there for a wii, and starts doing the same. When he's done on the phone, he starts to explain that he and ... 30 other people, standing against the wall, whom I'd failed to notice, were waiting for a wii as well. It was some super special deal or something, but yet, they were all paying the same price.
Brad ran inside to find out if they had any, and they were all "out".
Gezus!
We're not talking about the iPhone here, folks.. it's a freakiin' wii.
The reason why we went in person, is because we decided (today) to finally buy one, and went straight away to get one. Honestly, if i knew i'd have to wait, I would have just ordered one on-line anyways. (Which is how I buy anything anymore, anyway.)
And I never did get the digital to analog TV converter box, with my $40 gov't coupon. We decided that we just don't watch enough TV to justify trashing a perfectly good tv to buy a digital one. It'd be better on the environment to just get the converter.