That’s right folks, the season is rapidly approaching. I always love this time of year, the hustle and bustle, the good cheer and of course, the shopping!

In that vein, every year on the day after thanksgiving nearly every store on the planet has super-special deals to get the good little consumers to empty their pocketbooks so we’ll all have something shiny under tree come Dec 25th. This year I have the edge. Someone has compiled a list of the “Black Friday” deals before they are available to the public. Check them out and plan ahead!

http://www.bf2004.net/

Oh and speaking of holiday cheer, check out this link.

Apparently a bunch of smart guys got together to see if they could turn some really crappy vodka into some pretty good vodka by using a Brita water filtration system to filter out the impurities and chemicals which give cheap vodka its nasty aftertaste (and beforetaste and duringtaste for that matter).

Surprisingly, it seems to work pretty well. I happen to have a Brita and I recently bought a new set of filters for it… I might just have to give this a try.