Here’s an odd feeling for someone who normally drives to work at an early hour - searchlights crisscrossing the sky over Roseville at 3:30 am. I’m accustomed to having the road to myself in the middle of the night, but the hunt is on for Christmas gifts and the stores open extra early the day after Thanksgiving. News reports say 30% of the population will do some holiday shopping today, but how many are there when the doors open at 5 or 6am?

It gets an easy laugh to talk about desperate shoppers elbowing each other out of the way to get to the last Pink Princess Party Play Set (we toyed with that cliché this morning), but in reality, I suppose it would be depressing to find yourself in the middle of such an absurd scene. Anyone care to confess? And did you get what you were looking for?