Baggy Pants Guy, Funny Hat Guy, and Collar Guy <- three funny people I saw today

Wow, 6pm and it’s been a full day. I was actually up at a half decent hour. Well, 10ish. Heck, even made it out of the house by 11:58! Long long day of shopping. And I hate shopping. At least it wasn’t Christmas shopping, which is what I hate most. Maybe one of these years I will actually get my presents in say, November, instead of December 24th πŸ™‚

Friday was yet another (mostly) failed day of company activity. We have had people bitching for a long time now that the weather was too nice to play volleyball inside, and the day we decide to go and play Ultimate or Soccer only 7 people showed up! We played a little, but it really sucked with so few people πŸ™ At one point I was trying to do great moves! around Bear and ended up rolling over my ankle, which went pop. Not a good thing I figured, and continued playing. It’s swollen a bit, and wrapped up, but I don’t think I’ll be up for hiking or climbing this awsome weekend πŸ™ Walking around shopping kinda sucked too. It feels almost ok, but not quite good enough to run the Sun Run just yet.

I decided to do a bit of shopping around, as I was planning on buying some CDs, and found some interesting things out. The CDs were ones that I had on tape, or should have, but haven’t picked up yet. A few U2, some CCR, and some girl named Nelly F-something-or-other (she sings that “I’m like a Bird” song). Also the movie Dinosaur, which I’ve given up trying to download the DIVX rip with WinMX [archive.org link].

Hopefully this will help some of my fellow abbotsfordians in their
buying decisions*.

Purchase\Store
Chapters.ca
A&B Sound
Future Shop
HMV
U2 – All You Can’t Leave Behind
$17.99
$13.79
$16.99
$18.99
CCR – Greatest Hits
$26.49
$18.79
n/a
n/a
U2 – Achtung Baby
$17.99
$18.49
n/a
$22.99
U2 – The Jushua Tree
$18.99
$15.99
n/a
n/a
U2 – Zooropa
$17.99
n/a
n/a
$23.99
Nelly Fortado – Whoh Nelly
$16.95
$13.79
n/a
$17.99
Enya – A Day Without Rain
$16.99
$13.79
$14.99
(didn’t look)
DVD – Disney’s Dinosaur (Special Edition)
$34.99
$43.99
n/a
$37.99

Notice a couple of things. A&B is the best prices for 90% of the small amount I was getting. HMV kicked A&B for the one DVD price. Future Shop licked donkey balls across the board. Chapters isn’t that much of a savings, especially when you consider you still have a $3-5 cost of shipping added on. In this case my comparision shopping (completely un-scientific) paid off, and I learnt a few things πŸ™‚

This didn’t stop me from completely forgetting to put Zooropa into the pile though πŸ™ Bah.

In addition to this shopping and food shopping, I also finally took my bike in for a tune up for the summer and picked up a pair of nice columbia hiking shoes, which will be used for walking/hiking, as using my Running (as in “made for running”) shoes for day to day walking isn’t the best thing for them.