I hope you're taking note of how cool this new template is...
I'll get to it eventually.

James Lileks mentions something in his blog today that is a big pet peeve of mine too. The whole seasonal stock thing in stores. Why is it that they can't have the current season's stuff in the store during the season?
We encountered a really typical example of this a couple of summers ago. We're visiting relatives at a lake in B.C. and while we're out on the water, my daughter's hat blows off and disappears into the lake. No problem we thought, we'll just go to the Wal-Mart in town and buy a new one. Well, apparently at Wal-Mart (and every other store) the end of July is fall not summer. They don't have any summer hats! They've got all their fall merchandise in stock, summer merchandise is gone.
Yeah, well I think you see where I'm going. The only exception seems to be Christmas stuff. They start putting it out in October and it stays in the stores until after Christmas. Why can't they figure out that this would work well all the time? Is it because people would never go back if they stopped carrying Christmas stuff at the end of November? Probably, but no one seems to care that all the other seasons are screwed.
Oh well. It's cold here today, maybe I'll go buy some new fall clothes 'cause that what it feels like. They say it might even SNOW!!!!! tonight! Welcome to August.
At least it's a long weekend.