What a weird day to be sick. American Thanksgiving. Fading in and out of a Neo-Citronization, I am following the weather to make sure we can get a run into Ithaca Saturday for some shopping and I reallized I never got American Thanksgiving before. Here is what it appears to be about:

• The Detroit Lions apparently have a God given right to play really badly in the Thanksgiving Classic so everyone can see how in the States really really bad they are and so everyone in Canada can see how all those ex-CFL guys are doing on the second string in the NFL.
• Thanksgiving in the US is the beginning of the winter holiday season where in Canada it is more like the the last holiday of the summer, cottage closing time.
• The idea of getting up at 5 am to go shopping tomorrow at shops where the same merchandise will be on sale at 5 pm at the same price makes no sense...at all.
• Blowing the cooking of the turkey seems to be a bigger aspect to the event than cooking it well.