It occurs to me whenever I drive around here that I haven't mentioned the names of the many convenience stores around the island. I sometimes wonder at the difference in culture that leads to naming conventions. Back home we either have chains of stores like 7-11 or Cumberland Farms or we have the little mom and pop stores like Tyler's Market. Stores back home are named for the owners or the location.

Here they seem to pick out words that bring a positive connotation. Thus you get the Joy Market, Happy Computers, and Luck Store. Most of the stores I've been into seem to be run by Korean families. Maybe that is the method they use back home. It's interesting to see these differences.

I am also still looking forward to... the Christmas specials. For some reason our TV runs two weeks behind mainland USA. So this Thursday we will have the Christmas day specials on some of the channels we watch. ACM will have Christmas cowboy movies and SciFi will be running Twilight Zone all day (I think). We still have Christmas commercials too. If I see that Santa riding the electric shaver one more time I'm gonna barf.

Merry Christmas!