Some idle thoughts on the budding holiday season:
- It doesn’t seem like the Christmas/holiday ads have started any earlier this year. A small mercy.
- Curiously, I have seen numerous ads for licensed products for the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, but none for the actual movie itself. You can buy Stars Wars cosmetics. I don’t know why. But you can.
- The controversy over the Starbucks holiday cups is dumb. The initial impulse is perhaps to despair over how many people seem upset over this non-issue but there’s always been people like this, we just have the Internet to insure every one of their voices now gets heard. Hooray for technology.
- Our late fall weather has been cold and dry with random violent storms sweeping through every few weeks or so. This is probably due to El Niño, which is also responsible for the warmest October on record (it was pretty mild, which is nice for here, less so where it means ice caps melting/climate change doom).
- I had my yearly egg nog.
- Apple spice candles smell nice.
- I do not want a white Christmas.
- The Black Friday nonsense seems to be on the wane, though that may be partly related to the U.S. Thanksgiving coming so late this year. I’ll take what I can get.
- We’re putting up a tree this year. AND DECORATING IT WITH STARBUCKS HOLIDAY CUPS.
That’s about all for now.
