Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

 Have you heard of Black Friday? In case you didn’t know what it is –

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the holiday season. Most retailers will open very early and usually provide massive discounts on their products.

Although Black Friday is typically the busiest shopping day of the year in terms of customer traffic, it is not typically the day with the highest sales volume. That is usually either Christmas Eve, the last Saturday before Christmas.

Click here for more information at Wikipedia.

I’ve noticed Black Friday has gotten popular every year. Same time, it can be pretty danger if some people are doing stupid like fighting over items or pushing during storm into the store.

Personally, my friend and I went Fry’s Electronics Store two years ago. We got up so early and attend little before 5:00 AM for Black Friday Sale. Whoa! Its long line already and we decide to stay inside car because it’s cold outside. We were drinking coffee and wait till the door open at 5:00 AM sharp. They only allow people from line to get in store first. Ugh!

We ended up did not get anything and the excitement is over. I am sure there’s some good stuff on big sale but is it worth? Well, if you have never been to Black Friday before, you should give it a try sometime. You will get the experience for yourself.

Many stores like Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-mart, Target, JcPenney, etc always push hard for its annual Black Friday. Make sure you check it out local newspaper advertising or check it out online. Click here. (list all sale items online)

If you are serious or want to learn more about it, join forum; click here.

Also, if you have been there before, I guess you know what I am talking about.

Anybody plan to attend Black Friday this year?

Ever since I registered, I’ve done my part by vote frequently over years. I never forget that I actually vote for Ross Perot who tried to run for US President years ago. I still think he would make a hell of good president.

Anyway, I remember my father always talked about political stuff when I was young. It is healthy and fun to discuss this stuff regularly but what’s interesting about it – my dad never actually vote or even register at all.

What’s the deal? I may never know why.

Closed Captioning on Political Commercial TV

I definitely don’t understand why majority of campaign commercial do not offer captions at all. I know I wasn’t paying attention to TV commercials much these days because I almost always use Digital Video Recorder (DVR) which allows me to skip all commercials. However, many of those videos also on website and again, it don’t offer caption or even transcript.

Do they really care about our deaf community?

Governor Perry

Congratulation, Governor Perry won the election. I am not big fan of Perry however I was always been mixed of Republican and Democrats personally. Hmmm

Sigh.