Nov
27
2009

Sugar High @ Ruby Room

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(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music, Live Shows)
Photobox ImageTonight was the much anticipated Sugar High gig at The Ruby Room in Phoenix, the first time that we've both seen the band.

The Ruby Room was a cool divey bar venue, I liked it a lot, I wish there were more places like that down in Tempe. Our timing was pretty good, we caught two songs by the co-headlining band before Sugar High started setting up. Given that we'd slept until 5pm today it was nice lounging around and not leaving until 10pm.

Sugar High did a really cool set, probably half from Saccharin and half from the new record. It definitely made me think they were still up here (they moved to Tucson a few years ago), because I could really get used to going to Sugar High gigs.

After the set we went out for a smoke and then wandered back in so I could see if we could pick up their latest CD. After a while I flagged down Adrian, who hooked us up with the CD, some stickers (which made Katie happy) and chatted briefly about moving to Tucson given that I happened to be wearing my Club Congress t-shirt.
Nov
27
2009

Thanks To Black Friday I Now Have A Netbook

(Add / View Comments) (0)Friday, November 27, 2009 - 07:18:02 am
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Okay, so I've wanted a Netbook since before leaving Australia, but haven't been able to justify with all our expenses of, y'know, moving to another country and all.

However, last night Katie spied the Best Buy black friday deal on the Compaq Mini (10.1" 1.6Ghz Atom/1GB RAM/160GB HDD) netbook - for $179, a limit of 10 per store. It didn't take much to decide we were going to give scoring one a try.

Our initial plan was to show up and best buy at 1am or 2am - with tickets handed out at 3am and doors opening at 5am. We however decided to check out what was going on at the Awatukee store at 9pm to get a sense of our required plan. So we packed up the car and headed down to Ray Rd.

On arrival there was already a fairly decent line. We may have been okay, but before long I suggested we just keep on trucking down to Casa Grand to hopefully increase our chances for success.

We down there about 40 minutes later, and were met with a somewhat shorter line. We probably ended up 30th in line, which I think was better than if we've stayed up in Phoenix. As such started our wait outside of Best Buy.

Before long I grabbed the Slash book from the car, which I'd read out on the trip to AZ but hadn't quite finished - and hadn't found time since getting here to finish. So it was quite nice getting that finished, which got us through to about 1am. From then on I entered phone number into my phone, another thing I'd been meaning to do and killed time.

Tickets ended up being handed out closer to 4am than 3am. Although we seemed like we were in a good position, this was the moment of truth - if 10 people in front of us also wanted the netbook, then we were screwed. Thankfully we were the third people in line with that on our wish list. [smile] Sweet, the wait had paid off.

Once doors opened at 5am we headed in, and had it in our hands and paid for in no time. I briefly looked at deals on monitors and a few CD's, and we were out of there by 5:12am.

It was quite a satisfying moment driving back to Phoenix with the mission accomplished. I was hoping to see the sun come up over the desert, though we got back to Phoenix before 6am. We headed over to Office Max (who didn't open until 7am) to pick up a monitor. When it wasn't open, we headed back home to drop everything off, then back out to OfficeMax to pick up the monitor. Then it was back home to finally sleep!

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