Larry McKenzie

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Happy Thanksgiving to all of my friends, family and great folks that I work with.

I am thankful for you all!

It just hit me that Thanksgiving is this week.

The holiday week creeped up pretty quick.   I have been looking through the Christmas costumes section over at Spirit Halloween thinking that there were still a little more time before yummy Turkey Day (yum).

Happy Thanksgiving everyone (early).   Be safe.  Do not eat too much.

btw… It is a myth that eating turkey makes you sleepy because of tryptophan in it.   You can get sleepy by ingesting tryptophan but have to eat A LOT to get the affect.  If you eat too much, you will get sleepy.  No matter what you eat.

I have been on social networks for years.     I can only imagine the costs involved of providing support to members of  Facebook and Myspace .   However,  There were a few times within the past months where it was very important to contact them.

If nothing else, they should offer a premium service of getting ahold of them.   If they wish marketers to use their site, they really should let us contact them in a timely manner when something goes very wrong.

I am a fan of both sites, I just hope that they improve on this.

It is very interesting to see people make comments about health care when they really do not understand what is going on.

Health care reform is needed.   It is messed up.  Too many of my friends would be alive today if we had a better health care system.   Each instance that I know of was because insurance not approving something that was really necessary.

In many places in the USA, If you take any pain medicine for any reason, that is enough for you to be denied for health care.    I am not saying what has been proposed is good or bad, it just has to change.

Black Friday is coming soon!

I have to admit that I was not interested in Black Friday.  But over the past few years, I have noticed really good deals right before, on , and after the day.

Last year, we went to Walmart a couple of days later, and they still had the most amazing deals.

There are many sites to help find the online and offline sales.  The one that I have followed the most is: http://gottadeal.com/blackfriday

Even if you do not check out that day, Cyber Monday is also a good way to go.  Hey, if you are going to buy something anyway, you might as well get a good deal.

Arghhh!   Facebook Fan Pages currently are mostly blank!  Not all of them, but some of them.  Coke – Pepsi – Spirit Halloween – Walmart – most of them!

This is one of those times when it does matter that they do not have an easy way to contact them.

What is going on?  Hopefully this does not last long.

The weather is perfect outside ( here in Las Vegas ).  It is 76 degrees outside right now and is supposed to be in the 80′s all week.

Whoohoo.  That sure beats 110.   Hopefully it will not be too windy this month.

If you are reading this, then you also like social media.    Chances are that you have found this one way or the other as I spend a lot of time through the different social media outlets.

Many years ago, there were private blogs (we did not call them blogs then).   Then things started happening.   People wanted to share things.   People wanted to read things that others wanted to share.

THAT was the start of this crazy social media frenzy they we all face today.

I have to say though….I love it!