Thanksgiving 2006

This was probably the least festive Thanksgiving Day that I've ever had in my entire life, but I still wound up having a pretty good day. I was at the station at 6:45 this morning: it's automated so that it runs Shepherd's Chapel on its own from 6 to 7, and then we run an hour of what we call "news reel" straight from an iMac. I made sure that was running smooth then locked up the place and drove down to the nearest convenience store to get "breakfast": a Snickers bar to go along with the Mountain Dew I brought. After news finished running at 8 I was then scheduled to run the tape of this past weekend's Reidsville Christmas Parade for about two hours. Then a live call-in "swap post". Then an informercial. Then a Thanksgiving Day parade from Detroit. Followed by the only two regular TV programs that I had to keep an eye out for commercial breaks. Then run the hour-long tape of the Layne's Brothers pharmacy show and then the Reidsville parade again. Fortunately about 1 p.m. my friend Johnny dropped by the station and he stuck around for an hour or so: it was great to have some company to break up the monotony. When I left at 3 I already had the Thanksgiving episode of The Beverly Hillbillies ready for my relief to run. And I think they've run the Reidsville parade at least twice more this evening. Anyhoo, didn't get to be at the family Thanksgiving dinner but Lisa brought me a plate home.

And right now, we're having a quiet evening still oggled by "the Behemoth" (the HDTV we bought yesterday). I'm considering driving to Greensboro in a little while so I can be at Four Seasons Town Centre when they open their doors for "Black Friday" at 1 a.m.! Maybe just to take pictures for the blog. I know: they're CRAZY to be doing that. It's materialism run amok. I used to enjoy going out the day after Thanksgiving just to watch the people and look at the new stuff in stores: it's maybe been 3 or 4 years since I've done that though.

Anyway, that was more or less Thanksgiving 2006. Next year I'm going to fry three turkeys, just to more than make up for not getting one in this year!