ibm is saying an 18% bump so far compared to last year. let's look at a couple of the results. last we are there were $45 billion in sales. the year before that was up from 41.2 billion. it went flat in 2008. and it's a fairly big bump. as for who is going shopping? the national retail association. now we are up to a third of the folks saying they plan on coming out on the black friday weekend. one of the benefits about this. every so often i see my wife walking by with one of the bags. so far my share of that has been a sweater and socks. julie: are those your christmas presents you lucky dog. >> reporter: i think so. julie: thank you very much. i'm second tbetion my idea.