day's stream

November 24th, 2023. Black Friday 2023. A whirlwind of a day today. Woke up pretty late so definitely no Black Friday shopping. Got ready around 10:00. Dad got some pastries for breakfast, I had a savory hot dog pastry and an egg tart. Asked parents if we were going anywhere a few times intermittently before noon, they said they didn’t have any plans. Lounged around bed around 12 again, took a series of naps that were shockingly hard to tell apart from reality – plans for San Francisco, the campus late at night, the house. Woke up around 2, and then made some coffee to try and shake off the sleepiness. No San Francisco as it turned out :-/ I spent a couple hours getting my shopping list together for Black Friday and around 4:30 we drove to the Westfield Valley Fair mall for some shopping. My youngest uncle, mom, younger brother, and cousin went inside the mall. My dad, middle uncle, and me went to Best Buy to check out some deals on technology. My middle uncle got a new MacBook Pro 16 inch, with 18GB of RAM. Why Apple settled on 18 and not 16 is beyond me but he deserved it. My dad tried deciding on which MacBook to get also but ultimately decided not to get one, citing lack of use and the fact his iPad still works fine. Also my mom didn’t really suggest it so that was that. I wandered around the Best Buy a bit for those few hours but nothing caught my eye, other than an Instax Mini camera, but even then I was more attracted to the prospect of quick prints than the instant gratification of it. I do need to get some prints from Snapfish soon! I suggested my dad get a keyboard and mouse but we found that it would’ve totalled to the same price as a Logitech keyboard case so that was also that. Mom and her group met up with us at Best Buy and we headed home around 8:00, but stopped by H-mart to get some sashimi for dinner. The urchin eggs(?) was really good; a bit like a sweeter crab head. And I had a lot of salmon and daikon over a bit of rice.