Same here. Hey, did you go to the MIT flea too?
What's that?
Basically I had to go down to Skokie to meet up with a friend, and then decided to head to Fry's for their anniversary sale. Well, I didn't know that I couldn't turn from 94 to 90 West, so ended up going all the way down to the 290. Big waste of time. It was a Sunday afternoon, and in places both 90/94 and 290 were just like a parking lot.

Then I get to Fry's finally, and they were OOS on just about anything good from their "Anniversary sale prices lasts 7 days." The $6.99 100 pack DVD+/-R blanks, $0.29 4 pack AA alkaline batteries, refurb Ooma Hub, Core i7 2600K, plus whatever else I looked at... yeah all sold out. Thanks Fry's, for anticipating demand as usual. Not.
I went to Micro Center and they pricematched the $250 Core i7 2600K. Thanks, Micro Center! :thumbsup:
Now I just have to decide whether to keep the 2500K for a future upgrade (my LAN rig maybe?) or sell it to recoup some money.
I called Microcenter last night and they said I could pick it up today at that price as long as I held the item with a credit card yesterday.
The problem is the near 70 mile drive. :\