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Bedtime: 2330
Awoke: 0430
Target Store: Fred Meyer, Wood Village
Arrival: 0500
Place in line: 1
Wiis Available: 0
Target Store: Target, Division
Arrival: 0700
Place in line: 2
Wiis Available: 0
I called all the Fred Meyers and none of them received any units. There was little hope for Target, but they have a later opening time, so it was worth a try. This afternoon I’ll call the GameStop stores and tomorrow morning I’ll do Vancouver Fred Meyer again.
Bedtime: 2130
Awoke: 0430
Target Store: Fred Meyer, 164th Ave, Vancouver WA
Arrival: 0530
Place in line: 3
Wiis Available: 0
Target Store: Fred Meyer, Mill Plain, Vancouver WA
Arrival: 0615
Place in line: 3
Wiis Available: 0
I could have waited in line at Circuit City until their 1000 opening time, but Tina had physical therapy at 0800. Tomorrow is going to be Part 4 repeated.
Today was freight day for Portland Fred Meyer stores.
Bedtime: 2100
Awoke: 0350 (20 minutes before alarm)
Target Store: Wood Village Fred Meyer
Arrived: 0430
The trucks arrived at about 0530 and left an hour later. At about 0630 I called the Glisan Fred Meyer to get directions in case I needed it as an alternative. Expecting to get the phone system, I was surprised when a real person answered and put me through to Electronics. They told me they had no Wii’s, but I now had a great idea. I called Electronics at the Fred Meyer where I was waiting and asked if they had any Wii’s. They did not. Next I called two more to find the nearest and to get the lowdown on their inventory.
The nearest at 148th and Division said they would not complete freight until after 0800, so I motored over there where I waited with a small crowd of about 10 people. There were six in line when I arrived, but there were others that later got out of their cars. There was no orderly line and I could see that it had the potential to turn out badly. At 0700 the store manager let us in and gave us the lowdown. They did not expect to have freight completed until 0830. They would not hand out numbers (which has been customary in all my experience with this) until they knew if they had any. If they did have any, they would award them based on a lottery system. Needless to say, the woman who was first in line at 0500 was more than a little upset.
Fast-forward to 0815 after extensive browsing of the very small electronics department. The inventory clerk informed us that they had received no units.
Tomorrow is Circuit City freight day and Fred Meyer will have another freight day on Friday. If nothing else, I was able to figure out a better plan for Friday based on today’s experience.
Bike odometer: n/a
Weight lost: 44 lbs.
Hours of sleep last night: 5.5
Hours billed this week: 4
Current reading: The Prince by Machiavelli, Feminism Is For Everybody by Bell Hooks
Recent listening: XO by Elliott Smith, Either/Or by Elliott Smith, The Lost Christmas Eve by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Jimmie Rodgers, Not For Kids Only by Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
Recent viewing: Sportscenter, Bengals at Colts, Eagles at Giants, Medium, Discoveries This Week, Man vs. Wild
Recent playing: Sketchfighter
Recently accomplished: Sorted and stored computer stuff in garage, attempted to RMA hard drive (Seagate website messed up), reorganized workbench in garage, waited in line, called many Wii resellers
Imperative To Do: Buy Wii, dry van, finish garage, finish old blog entries, call mechanic, build new computer for Thomas, rake, clean garage, fix laundry room door, RMA old Tivo drive, Best of 2006
Cool Link: A Charlie Brown Scrubs Christmas
I awoke shortly after 6:00 am with two stores on the agenda for the morning:
Arrival: 7:00 (opening)
Wiis Available: 3
Wiis Sold Before Me: 3
Arrival time for first in line: 5:00 am (with no guarantee there would be any in stock)
Arrival: 7:20 (40 minutes before open)
Place in line: 1st
Wiis Available: 0
Arrival: 8:10
Wiis Available: 0
I hit the last Target on the way home. I drove 23 miles altogether. Tomorrow is a big day as it’s a stocking day for the all the Portland Fred Meyers.