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Saturday November 29th 2003 01:36 AM PST

the last few days have been busy. I worked over at epic on wed for about 5 hours. During that time it seems that everything fell apart. It was fun being there and being able to help out. The best part of the day was when Mike told George that one of the checkstand computers would not turn on. George just sat there not being able to imagine the possibility of going into the busiest shopping day of the year with another one of his checkstands gone. He looks at me and begs me to take a look at it. I didn't even have to look, i could smell the problem. The power supply had burnt and George just happened to have an extra lying around. So on top of everything else i did in the store that day, i got to perform surgery on a very poorly designed windows box. I get about 10 screws out and the power supply is free, or at least i think so. I then realize that the cable connected to the motherboard is buried under every other piece of hardware inside the computer, so i ALL has to come out. About another 30 screws later i've got the entire computer in pieces and the new power supply in. The computer boots up and there are high fives to go around. Just another day at the office.

Thanksgiving with the family is always fun. My mother usually goes into HOLY SHIT mode right around the time everybody starts to show up. This is due to the fact that up to that point she could actually get things done without anybody else's ass in the kitchen. No she has to play bumper cars with all of us. We joked around and helped her out and everything went off without a hitch. Jen's family and my uncle Joe were also all there. Vera showed up with Justin, Jenna, Johnathan and Bacca. (i probably just spelled that wrong, sorry) It was amazingly in control for a riegler holiday. Usually we have at least one drunken incident or contact sport related injury. We stuffed ourselves silly as per tradition and drank so much coffee afterwards that we were all a little crazy. We all hung out til really late and Jen and I finally got home about midnight.

Today was spent working on various little projects and just relaxing. Karrie and Jen spent the day together doing all kinds of shit. I do believe shopping on a day like today could be considered an extreme sport. They both said there were not HUGE crowds so it wasn't that bad. Karrie saved my ass and i have to thank her. Jen and her both went to see Love Actually, so that gets me off the hook from having to watch it.

My mom brought leftovers from last night over today. I could tell she needed something to do cause she called me up 5 minutes after she had just been at my door and said that she had forgot to include a few things and was coming back over. Jen and i thank her cause that was dinner tonight for us. We sat around watching the West Wing with the phone ringer off and the answering machine turned down.