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Just arrived home from the first day of my first Rage Festival.

Awesome. But I’m exhausted. That makes a LONG day.

Maybe if I get bored later I’ll put some pictures on my flickr or something. Maybe after day 2.

What would you do for a hundred bucks? Cash.

If I said “I’m giving away one hundred thousand dollars. Each person is entitled to one hundred of those dollars. Just be at the town gate to collect it on January 14th.” Would you go?

What about if “town gate” was replaced with “office chair” and “one hundred dollars cash” was replaced with “one hundred dollars worth of electronic goodness.” Then Would you go?

I would. And that’s exactly what I did. Today, January 7th, Sparkfun had a free day. Yes, a free day. (read about it on their website) Everything was free in your order (well, the first hundred dollars were free).  I got up early for this event. I was ready to go. I had my items in my cart last night, ready to checkout. Come 9:00 am (MST) this morning when the free event started, I clicked checkout.

Nothing happened. It timed out.

REFRESH!

Timeout again.

(repeat umpteen times)

Nothing. I got nothing. I had a few glimmers of hope. I was able to tell them I wanted to use FedEx Home shipping, and I was able to tell them my credit card number is 5500 0000 0000 0004. Just kidding. But I did get to tell them my credit card number. And then, moments before I was destined to click “confirm order” (c’mon, let my dream live), they reached the $100,000 mark.

Thank you for the fun Sparkfun.

You should do it again. Except, let me win this time.