Sunday and perhaps even yesterday were the days of Giving. Today was the day of greed.

4:45 am
txt msg "JT Driving, leave @ 5:30 meet @ 5:45 @ FS.. Call, need your status"

My brain was slow, I had just gotten in the door. I felt like sleep but somehow I knew the movie I had just seen would keep it at bay until I was on the verge of collaspe. I looked out through the door. Raining, freezing: the definition of miserable weather, but what the hell.

4:48 am (after mastering predictive text on a Nokia)
txt msg reply " I am up and ready, sorry about lack of contact last night, when is go time?"

4.51 am (obviously I'm not the only one to understand predictive text messaging)
txt msg "Go time is moved up, we go now, be there soon. Youre gay."

Driver Exhaustion offered a very colorful ride in a well made Korean economy car, not only did my Heart Rate raise for the second time but a near death experience can do wonders for aiding in wakedness.

We arrived, the rain still driving, a mob assembling along the drier shadow of the building. The 4 of us moved into position. "5.55.. now we wait."

In my half alert state I'd slipped on Jeans that had been casualties of a snowball fight hours earlier. Despite my best efforts, they had apparently still been damp... something which didn't play to my favor in the hour long exposure to the freezing temperatures. I was the first to complain.

"What is the reading on your Chronometer there J?"

"We got here 10 minutes ago, it's 6:05, shut up."

I started to do a little jig, anything in an effort to keep warm.
The hour actually began to pass more quickly. The pitch darkness began to recede as we passed around the Flyer "You hit Home Theatres, you Computers, you run straight up the middle, push if you have to, get 3 of these phones, and you.... you run block for Colum, he's going for the Theatre centre, it's gonna be tangly in there." We were actually huddled, so it just didn't sound like a football game.

Moments later, "6.55 boys, 5 minutes form up!"

It was kind of crazy, I could feel myself flash with warmth, adrenaline pumping through me, everyone began jumping and down a little, edging to go.... and then there was like this sudden roar of the crowded. I imagine most riots begin like this.

"Surge!! Surge!!!!!" And we all pushed ahead, diving, driving through the sleepy, stumbling crowd and dancing through the open doors. We split off as our plan had demanded, a bigger fellow than I running block for me, pushing the stragglers out of the way.

A torrent of shoppers came in behind us, a Kid fainted and went into shakes on the floor, but a Store clerk was on top of him in a second. My First Aid long expired we Danced around it all andwe snagged it! One of a limited Quantity of Panasonic Home Theatre kits.

All the better for the movie Watching Experience.

9:56 am
I collapsed into my bed. A series of McDonald's "Hashbrowns" terrorizing my body, 25 minutes of sleep under my belt, Home Theatre at My feet, Huge.. Huge smile on my face.