Went to OfficeMax at 8:30 this morning
to see if they still had the 1TB Seagate FreeAgent external hard drives for $49.99. Got there too late. Manager wouldn't say how many they had to begin with, but I'm guessing maybe 2 - 3 per store to be gone that fast since the store opened at 7 and I knew of no one planning to go there.
Drove to our local MicroCenter for the same deal. Same result: came up empty-handed, and no, they wouldn't give a rain check.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
