Friday, November 28, 2014

Stores Are Open on Thanksgiving


Today (or, more accurately, the day that just ended) was Thanksgiving.  The big trend in recent years has been for stores to open on Thanksgiving in order for people to start their holiday shopping. I'm not a fan of this trend, because people who are employed at the stores have to go into work, and I think that there should be at least a few days where as close as possible to everyone can just stay home and rest.  (I feel the same way about the longstanding tradition of people seeing movies on Christmas Day—other people have to give up their day off to run the theaters.)

I'm not even that big on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving on which people used to being holiday shopping.  I like the idea of people eating a lot on Thanksgiving, then sleeping through Black Friday entirely, waking up sometime Saturday or maybe Sunday.  

But then I like to sleep.  

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Candy for Breakfast


On Friday, one of the local radio stations, WASH-FM 97.1, started playing Christmas music.  I like Christmas music, but I really don't feel like listening to it before about the middle of December. (I know that I've addressed this issue before, either here or on the Wandering Army blog, but I'm too lazy to look it up.)

I've come up with some words of wisdom to best describe the situation: 

Listening to Christmas music in November is like eating candy for breakfast.