Today is Cyber Monday, originally so named as this was the day when workers returning to their offices, work stations, cubicles etc., chose to shop on company time, rather than dive right back in.
Not surprising really. Those with a long weekend tend to return for the most part with the post holiday blahs.
Retailers, however, picked up this pretty quickly and started offering Cyber Monday deals, making it a real thing.
How about you, have you participated in the Consumer Culture Bacchanalia? It's sort of hard not to, although I support Small Business Saturday.
Which doesn't mean I participated in it. I don't like shopping much anyhow. And my land line phone has broken so that the message light hasn't been going off. Given that, I missed an invitation to a book signing, but truth be known as I was very much looking forwards to four days in a row with now work, perhaps that was to my benefit in another sense. Book signings make me really tense as I'm highly introverted by nature, something that people who know me only in a professional sense would be surprised to learn.
Anyhow, I guess it isn't true that I didn't participate entirely. That Saturday I did run out and stop by a sporting goods store to get something I required anyhow. Things were marked way, way down and it wasn't until I got home that I realized that it must have been a Small Business Saturday sale.
My daughter and wife did participate, however. They went to a collection of small local businesses on Saturday to shop for Christmas. Good for them.
Thanksgiving was otherwise low key but odd. As already noted on these pages, we went to our in laws where an elderly hunter died in a field while we were out there. Strange melancholy experience. The next day I had a message from one of my employees about a medical emergency of epic proportions in their family, very distressing indeed. All that caste a sort of tense gloom over things. I didn't work, however, and did go hunting a couple of times.
Cyber Monday? Who knows, perhaps even I'll participate a bit.
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