It was a cold, dark, dreary, rainy day.
It’s not very often a story about Phoenix starts that way, but that’s what it was like today.
I had to go out at lunchtime to try to find a DVI cable for my new monitor. I also needed to get an Apple mini-DVI to DVI dongle for my MacBook. With a little luck, I thought perhaps Fry’s Electronics would have both the cable and the dongle. I was sure they’d carry the cable, but the dongle was more of a question mark. They carry Apple products and a few accessories and apart from the Apple store, they were the only place that might carry it. (I knew the Apple store wouldn’t carry the DVI cable.)
Fry’s only had the cable (and 135 people in line in front of me) so I had to make a trip after work to the Apple store. The city was practically gridlocked, between the holiday traffic and the rain, it was brutal. A trip from my office to the Apple store normally takes 10 minutes, today it took an hour. The parking lot was a log jam, and the Apple store was doing a ripping bit of business.
The guy ahead of me was buying eight 30Gb iPods!
I wish I had that kind of money for XMas (or even Saturnalia) presents.