I had a Navy Blue shirt that I loved and have had for some time.  It went the way of the dodo and I thought, “I’ll just go and pick one up this weekend at Target”.  To my surprise that was not the case.  Target, Walmart (I bought clothes there once), Kohl’s, didn’t have a Navy Blue button down long sleeve shirt with pocket.  What?  Maybe they’re just out of stock right now, right?  Nope, even a check online revealed one place that has them and their primary business was mail order dress shirts.  When you actually get to ordering it tells you, “this item is out-of-stock.”  My mother-in-law, thanks Gaye, gave me a gift card to Steinmart and I thought, well we just might be able to find one there…and…no dice.  They had many nice colored shirts, but no NBBDLSSwP.  Polos, polos, and more polos of navy blue, even pockets, but not button down collared shirts. 

Next step?  Department stores.  First of all, Target normally fills my every need when it comes to clothes (excluding suits), but a department store?  In fact, Ginger was able to find and bought a NBBDLSS w/o pocket at Target, but it just isn’t the same.  I resigned myself to go to Dillard’s, I even hate to type it, and voila a NAVY BLUE BUTTON DOWN LONG SLEEVE SHIRT with POCKET and it was on the clearance rack, $13 too!  On the clearance rack, though?  What’s with that?  Is even conservative dressware dying?  Professionals really want to look like they’re going clubbing?  By that I mean, many of the nice colored shirts they had there and elsewhere had no pocket and other funky designs on them that said, $30K millionare, not professional. 

Mind you, there are dress shirts galore, white of which I have plenty and Kohl’s (Mervyn’s when it was around) will fill that need quite nicely, light blue as well, light brown khaki if you will, isn’t a problem either.  It’s just with Navy Blue. 

They even have this color

Now I need to replace my dark green dress shirt that is on its last legs and from the looks of it, I may not be able to find one.  I suspect there are more men like me, but fashion is dominated by women’s clothing so I’m sure nobody cares.

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Amidst the shocker that was the Super Bowl upset of the Patriots here in Arizona, there were more fireworks going on here with the Suns.? Shaquille O?Neal was traded to the Suns for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks.? Apparently, Miami was looking for a way to unload Shaq?s large contract and get younger.? Well they succeeded.

My first thoughts of this trade were, ?it would be a UA grad (GM Steve Kerr) that would get duped into this trade.?? But as I pondered this more, Shaq?s ego is looking for one more stroke and what better way than to have one more go especially against his old buddy Kobe.? Amare will be playing his true position at power forward and Shaq doesn?t need to be the primary weapon on this team.? Hell he doesn?t need to be 3^rd.? Miami didn?t have much in the way of a supporting cast.? Not so with the Suns.? I?d say if he has one or two more runs in him yet, please make sure these runs line up with the playoffs.

I?m Kent Brockman with MY TWO CENTS.

BTW, does it look like D’Antoni is excited about Shaq being here?

So we went and bought me a bunch of clothes off the clearance rack and decided to stop off at the , because we have never layed on a Tempur-pedic mattress.

I have been having strange lower back issues lately as our bed is quite old and I’m not sleeping very well and I laid on the bed they have at the showroom and AHHHH!, it felt so good.? I wish we had the money yesterday to get it, because I am already looking forward to sleeping on it.