I usually avoid shopping on the friday following Thanksgiving, it is Buy Nothing Day after all, but this year my boyfriend Brian wanted to stop a couple places and I asked if we could swing by Best Buy since we are over that way.

I came away with a new, high-definision television, a 32" LCD Sony Bravia (the one with the nifty bouncing balls ads filmed here in SF) I got nearly $300 off on that one day sale. Two days and three calls to Comcast later I finally had an HD picture in time to watch Battlestar Galactica in HD on the Universal's channel.

I had a mac mini hooked up to the stereo, but only now can it actually be used for more than Front Row, Apple's media center program. With the wireless keyboard and mouse I can use it as a computer as well.

My roommates Dustin and Walter don't seem impressed, or even to have noticed, though they just got a bigger, HDTV for free. Brian at least got a kick out of how excited I was.