Then family started to arrive around 6:00. Megan also made an apple crisp and pecan pie with a twist, and everyone who came brought a dessert. I only had one plate at dinner to save room for all of the confections. I ended up having 4 pieces of various chocolate pie. Dessert was a success, and it was great to see family on Thanksgiving.
Nerd dad is almost ashamed to admit that he doesn't have an iPad. Megan has one that I've toyed with a little, but a tablet is the device/gadget that I have been lacking. I have had my eye on them for over a year. I've read all of the reviews for the tablets that are out there. My iPad decision came down to the fact that I have an iMac that I love, Apple products last, and are well worth the extra money that you pay for them.
Target's Black Friday deal on iPads is buy a new iPad Air and get a $100 GiftCard. Buy a Mini and get a $75 GiftCard. I haven't seen a deal that sweet in my year of watching the market, so I knew I should capitalize on it. Target opened at 8:00 tonight. The last of the dessert crew left around 8:30. I thought I'd go down to Target just to see if they might have one left. I didn't expect them to have one, but Target is pretty close to my house, so I didn't have anything to lose.
There is a PetCo next to my Target, and I pulled into their parking lot. The PetCo parking lot was almost full, and I knew that PetCo wasn't open today. This was overflow Target parking. I grabbed the first spot I saw in the PetCo lot and trekked to Target. I passed people who were locking up the guard rails that were set up outside the store before open.
I walked into Target and saw more people inside than I've ever seen in the store before. A lot of them had big TV's in their carts. People had carts (plural) of toys they were pushing to the front. There were Target team members every 10 feet or so directing traffic. The electronics section is all the way in the back of the store, so I bobbed and weaved my way back there. There were even more people in that section of the store. They were milling about looking at CD's, DVD's, and video games. I made a bee-line for the register where I thought I could ask a clerk to unlock an iPad for me if they had any left.
At the register was a guy standing with a big cage on wheels full of iPads. I went up to him, and then noticed the long line of people that were stepping up to him one-by-one. I found the back of the line, and there were about 50 people in front of me. I texted Megan that I probably won't get one, but I'm going to wait in line.
The line wasn't really moving. Target team members were walking down the line periodically announcing what they were out of, or the limited stock of what they did have. I started to think about if I was going to get whatever they have left, or walk if all they have is a 64GB. One time he said they "have plenty of mini's," and that's what I was looking for. It's at the price point I like, and it does everything the full sized version does.
So the line creeped forward ever so slowly, and finally I could see the cage. I saw what was taking so long. Almost everyone who got to the cage was asking what each version does, or what does 16 vs. 32 GB mean, etc. I think some of these people didn't care about the iPad so much as they wanted to say that they stood in line for something and got it.
I got to the cage and asked for a black 16 gig mini. He pulled one out and handed it to me. Finally, at long last, I have a tablet. Well, actually, Megan is giving it to me for Christmas, so come 12/25 I have a tablet.
She gave me my Kindle for Christmas last year, and it has been the best Christmas gift I've ever gotten (replacing the Pink Floyd box set of all of their albums that I got when I was in High School as best gift). Will an iPad top it? Time will tell. Leave comments with any cool things that I can do with an iPad.
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