President's Day

Must be the "new" Christmas.  

I had to go to Barnes and Noble to pick up a Spanish Reader the kids were supposed to have TODAY - they'd mentioned it after Spanish class last week, but failed to REMIND me.  So, instead of ordering on Amazon as I'd prefer, I was in the store.  It's Monday.  Just a little after 1pm.  It was PACKED.  There were long lines for everything:  information, check-out, and even coffee.  I thought they must be hosting a give-away or something until I realized it was President's Day and people were off work.

But I was in the store a week or so before Christmas, and it was nothing like this.  Apparently these people read, just not the newspapers:  don't they know the economy is bad and consumers have quit consuming??. . . . .