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It's worse than the 1992 Barney shortage, and maybe as bad as the 1980 Cabbage Patch Kid famine. I hereby give you...

Omega Supreme Energon. (It's a transformer. If you have no clue as to what a transformer is, count yourself among the fortunate.)

Both boys asked for two transformers: Megatron and Omega Supreme. We were planning to get one of each and split them between them. (No way they were each getting both -- those suckers are expensive.) We have a Megatron. I cannot locate an Omega Supreme for love or money.

Which serves me right for waiting -- they were in Toys R Us last month. I have found one store in SF that claims to have one... and says it costs twice what I know it lists for. Um, no thanks. I'm insane, but not *that* insane.

Well, I'll be a monkey's elf. Or something.

I found one. After calling or visiting (3) every Toys 'R' Us or independent toy store in the 408, 650, 415, and 510 area codes, I found the transformer in question at...

The Target store five minutes from my house. I had looked at other Targets, but since I hadn't seen it there and had had no luck with toy stores, I hadn't checked there.

They had three of them. Wow.

[Edit: Okay, so I exaggerated a little: there were a couple of stores in Gilroy and Sausalito I didn't call. Other than that, I pretty much covered everything.]

(no subject)

My good friend J. sends out a long Christmas letter each year -- or has every year for the past several. I always feel sort of annoyed about this (irrationally, I know) because I have given up on the whole sending out Christmas cards business (love to get them, but have trouble getting my act together enough to actually *send* them), and seeing her letter always makes me feel a bit guilty.

This year we had not gotten one. I was sort of relieved... except just now I got an email (sent to all J.'s friends) apologizing for ... not sending out the Christmas letter.

**headdesk**