I spent most of yesterday attempting to secure a gift for Kim. She’s already heard the whole story of my day so I don’t have to worry about ruining any surprises. At lunch time I headed out to The Jones Store to pick up a peacoat that we saw a week or two earlier while looking for other gifts. I wanted to get the grey color (they call it Tin) but could not find it in the right size. In fact I couldn’t get any color in the right size. The nice lady there found a grey one at another location of The Jones Store and told me that it would be reserved for me.

Knowing that I was going to pick up the coat after work on my way home, I gave up searching for other options. Turns out that I should not have given up. After work I swung by the other location hoping to get in and out very quickly (including the gift-wrapping). The lady at this store could not find my coat and told me to hang on while she helped another customer. After what seemed like a half hour, she was finally done checking out this other guy. She then runs all around the store and comes back telling me that they don’t have the right size. She tries to sell me a different coat that costs much more, but I was not having it. At this point I was already a half hour late to pick Kim up, so I gave up and left the store. Needless to say, I don’t think I’ll be returning to a Jones Store anytime soon.

On my drive home I called every Jones Store in the area hoping to find something, but I had no luck. An entire city of Jones Stores was out of what I wanted to buy, even after saying that one was reserved for me. So frustrating!

So I picked Kim up and we headed out to dinner at California Pizza Kitchen. After a drink and some awesome pizza I was feeling a little better. We spent the rest of the night packing and making copies of NOW 2005. My goal of 30 CDs is almost done, we only have to cut out the covers for around 10 of them. Be sure to find me this weekend in Cincinnati if you want a copy. We are leaving at 4PM today to make the drive back.

Merry Christmas!