The Jason Salas Experience

Guam is 17 hours ahead of EST, so as I write this it's Saturday morning, which is Friday morning for those of you in the States. Today's action around the shopping circuit is going to be nuts, more so because it's Christmas Eve and most places are shutting it down at 6pm. I swear, I've never seen a day where less happened in the non-retail business world than yesterday.

The situation was almost perfect: Christmas on a Sunday, with Friday being a generally lax day for most businesses. Almost every company, special interest group and non-profit displayed the same behavior. Organizations (whose employees hadn't conviniently scheduled holiday vacations) all went out to lunch en masse one more time or having internal pot luck parties, and those that couldn't make it took extra-long meal breaks to cram in some last-minute shopping at malls and outlets that were filled beyond capacity.

And it's like this every year. Being in the media, we're not privvy to such luxuries - we've got to go out and document it. I've got a pretty sizable queue business of e-mail requests I'm waiting on feedback from people local and in the mainland...after the holidays, of course.