We ventured to the giant mall yesterday to do the rest of our Christmas shopping.  After eating lunch and walking around for about 20 minutes, we decided to go home and shop online.  Things I hate about shopping at the mall:

1. It’s crowded.
2. It’s giant and requires a lot of walking to get from store to store–good exercise, sure, but not so good when you’re trying to be efficient.
3. Salespeople push things on you.  For most of the people I have left to buy for, I haven’t figured out what to get.  I’m just looking around, thinking about things.  I do not need people to hound me to buy something.  Note that this is different from the ones who are truly helpful.  I’m talking about the ones pushing crap you don’t want to buy.

Still, online shopping can be just as painful.  I’ve spent the better part of this afternoon looking for things.  Some things I wanted to buy, I didn’t, because they didn’t offer gift wrapping.  So I actually did a search for online shopping with gift wrapping.  These two articles gave me some ideas.

I’m still stuck, though, on what to get my father.  He’s a hard man to buy for. He’s a golfer, a wine enthusiast, and a hard-working lawyer.  He also likes biking and watching football.  You’d think I could come up with something with all that.  I’ve decided not to go in the wine direction because that’s what I did for his birthday.  I don’t know what he has golf wise.  And I’m not very knowledgeable about the other stuff.  So, I’m stuck.  What do you all suggest?