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… shopping on the Saturday before Christmas. I did it anyhow. I’ve never seen so many people out shopping in my life. Heck, it took me 30 minutes to park my truck at Citrus Town Square in Tampa and when I finally found a spot I had to walk 5 minutes to reach the mall. You know what though? I had a good time, I’m a fairly patient person so I don’t let things like long lines, lack of parking and tons of people really bother me.

After I left the mall I mozied on over to Best Buy to get my wife something that I can’t print because she might read this post. There must have been over 500 people in the store, it was just nutty but fun. Me being a gadget nut I was able to suppress the urge to shop for myself. Maybe I’m not feeling right or something because last night I went into one of the CompUSA stores that is shuttering and I walked out with nothing there too. Though, that mostly had to do with their cruddy prices.

One observation that made an impression on me today. Staff. Best Buy knows how to staff the store. They had plenty of folks on hand to handle the volume. I wasn’t standing in front of the widget I wanted to buy for more than 2 minutes before someone was there to help. I had the exact opposite occur at the Disney Store where they were clueless about Jojo from Jojos Circus, a program on their own Network.

Way back in June when I got blogging here one of the things I wanted to do was make page 1 of the Google search results for mobile marketing. The blog wasn’t anywhere close to page 1 at that time and if you read this monthly update back in September you know that I was bouncing between the 29th and 70th position amongst a kazillion results. Well, not really a kazillion but 200+ million; might as well be a kazillion because the mountain looked huge to me at that time with some really good and established web sites on page 1 of those results.

Tonight, I realized that page 1 was achieved! Naturally, I’ll be on page 2 tomorrow. But hey, I’m there now so it’s going in the time-line. Do you keep a time-line of accomplishments for stuff that you do or goals that you accomplish? I like to, here’s a sample… I know, I’m a nerd but without my time-line I would have totally missed the fact that over 100M results have vanished from Google since August. That’s a ton-o-stuff man, I wonder if the big G purged some spam?

I saved the SERP here for your viewing pleasure. That doohickey sticking out in the results to the left is my WACOM Tablet tool-pad Panel.

Alvin has this cool video of Criss Angel putting a mobile phone into a beer bottle, check it out.

Wow, what a long day. We woke up at 5:45AM in Sacramento CA., boarded a Southwest flight to Phoenix at 10AM then made our way to Denver and finally Tampa. I walked in my front door at 10PM. Here it is 12:20AM and I’m not tired so it will probably hit me tomorrow. My 22 Month old is still running around at full speed too.

It looks like I’m several hundred emails and 1,000 blog posts in the hole, yikes! It’s worth it though because we had a fantastic time with my Family, plus we made plans to travel to Norway in June which I’m really looking forward to.

I took tomorrow off so that I can catch up on sleep and go to our storage and get out the Christmas decorations. Oh, and apparently my water softener went wonky on me while we were gone so fixing that is on the agenda tomorrow too.

While the rest of the Country is shopping their brains out today I’m trekking with the Family to Muir Woods National Monument. If you’ve not experienced the Red Wood Trees at Muir then put it on your list of things you must do, it’s one of the most beautiful National Parks that you will ever visit.

I’m going bowling this morning with my Dad and Brothers and we’ve arranged it so that we’re eating 1 hour before the Colts game. My Brother is a huge Colts fan. Hope you are enjoying Thanksgiving.