On one of my first clicks at Buy.com, I noticed that Disney's Iron Giant was just released and on sale for $14.49.  The Iron Giant was the first motion picture that Ben and I had viewed together (his first movie, with his mom, was Disney's Tarzan).  He enjoyed it and his little brother Sam (my other son), though having never seen it, quickly picked up the key lines (e.g., "Hogarth" said in a raspy voice), and I knew that he would enjoy it as well.  I'm not wild about the violence at the end of the movie (alas, true of many Disney videos); I am not, however, the type to buy them Barney or Mr. Rogers videos (though I have absolutely nothing against them :-) ).  I placed the order and the item will ship in 1-2 days; this was definitely an impulse purchase.

I felt like shopping more in the evening as "science" never rests..  With Thanksgiving dinner for fifteen people scheduled to be at our house, however, I decided to go for the good night's rest and postpone more shopping until later.

Good luck to everyone gearing up for your bricks-and-mortar visits starting on Friday.  (Truth be told, last year, I started shopping at 6:00 am on the day after Thanksgiving just to see what it was like; similarly, on one occasion, I turned in my tax returns just before midnight at the IRS on April 15 to see what that experience would be like.  I did get on the television news during my tax return submission.  Otherwise, no big whoop.  Nothing worthwhile being missed by not shopping in stores on either the day after Thanksgiving or any other "holiday" shopping day.)