If you are a computer game superfreak, or just live anywhere remotely near civilization, you probably know that the PS3 is being released tomorrow amidst much hoopla. They retail for $659 CDN here and bids on eBay are currently over the $3000 US mark due to a shortage of units in time for the holiday season. People have been camped out front of stores all across the US since Monday for these units.... and yet, our local FutureShop, which is guaranteering a minimum stock of 10, had nobody in sight as of last night. My grand plan, formulated today at the last minute, was to wake up in the middle of the night and be at the store well before 8 a.m. in order to buy one of these consoles... then to unload it on some poor sap willing to pay a fortune. (And I would put a portion of the proceeds into the Salvation Army dude's kettle to make myself feel better about having taken advantage of the laws of supply and demand... right before buying a new camera. Or lens. Or making an uber-responsible mortgage payment.) Anyway, it was definitely too good to be true. I did a drive-by after work, and there were finally 4 tents and a couple of camping chairs set up on the sidewalk in front of the store. I would have been willing to get out of bed early, but not to actually spend all night out in the wind and rain, especially not when Little Mister needed dinner and a bath and some quality time before bed, and not when there were probably already enough people in line at 5 p.m. to buy up our city's whole allotment. Tomorrow morning I will be well-rested, but my easy money has gone *poof*.As for Liam, he is continuing to learn new words left and right, and has started compounding a couple at a time. His new idiom for when something goes wrong? Uh-oh has been lengthened into Uh-oh damn. This thanks to a slip of the tongue of Chad's last night, and a memory that just won't quit. Hopefully that's the worst of the 4-letter words that Liam picks up at home.
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