Thanks Or No Thanks

OK OK so I took a little time off from the blog and it appears no one noticed.

Well as it turned out it was a good thing I did. I ended up working some additional hours that I had not planned on, but most of all I had a great but short visit with my boys.

That, my friends, is always good except for the part of my getting my butt kicked in Rummy which I hope to avenge on poker night during the Christmas holidays.

This Thanksgiving we actually celebrated it twice since son Tyler had to return to Reno as he had to work Thanksgiving. So we had one meal on Wednesday with him and another with son Stacey on Thursday.

As always, the wife Vicki knows how to do a turkey with all the fixins and as always I know how to shovel them into my mouth.

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.


Speaking of part of the word Thanksgiving, that part being thanks, have any of you noticed as I have that fewer and fewer people say thanks?

I don't know how many times I hold a door for someone and they don't bother to even smile.

I guess after what Black Friday brought us I should not be be surprised that 'thank you' has been replaced by 'get out of my way.'

Some of our society seem to think it is OK to not only knock someone down while rushing into a store to buy a leader item that saves them a few dollars but also not to stop to help him.

The message that money is more important than a human life is frightening to me.

I think the stores should stop with the leaders that cause stampedes and take a page out of K - Mart's younger years and throughout the day have blue light specials.

That way shoppers that happen to be in the area where the blue light goes off are lucky enough to get the discount therefore giving all shoppers an equal chance at a deal.

Well here we are, the Christmas season has begun.

Speaking of Christmas, for those of you that are my normal readers and my new readers be sure and check out the new additions to the side border of my blog.

In closing, just to eliminate any doubt, this blog does say Merry Christmas.

A Christmas tree is a Christmas tree not a Holiday tree, and between now and Christmas you will hear the term Christmas used frequently.

Let the shopping begin. If you need my list of what I want from Santa, let me know.