Cyber Friday
Today is not a blanket holiday for my company. We get a couple of "floating holidays," and most of my teammates are taking today off, but a few of us have to work to support our customers, many of which are working today. (I will use my floating holiday next Wednesday as I fly to Montreal for SMOFCon 38.
While waiting for some reports for which I'm responsible to generate, I did do what I think will be the only Black Friday deal of which I'm going to use: DemeTECH a US-based manufacturer of high-quality masks including the N95 masks that Lisa and I use, is offering 40% off through November 27 at 23:59 (presumably Eastern time, that being the time zone in which they are based) using code BLACK2022. We still have a few masks left - we bought a lot of them months ago, most of which were the supply available during Westercon 74 - but we'll restock now, as the masks are not cheap. OTOH, cheap is not something I want for something I wear to protect myself from the people who mistakenly think that COVID isn't a thing anymore.
We still have some masks in stock, and I pulled six of them yesterday and packaged them in plastic bags for the SMOFCon trip. I probably won't need all of them, but it's better to have spares for when an elastic band breaks than to be caught short.
While waiting for some reports for which I'm responsible to generate, I did do what I think will be the only Black Friday deal of which I'm going to use: DemeTECH a US-based manufacturer of high-quality masks including the N95 masks that Lisa and I use, is offering 40% off through November 27 at 23:59 (presumably Eastern time, that being the time zone in which they are based) using code BLACK2022. We still have a few masks left - we bought a lot of them months ago, most of which were the supply available during Westercon 74 - but we'll restock now, as the masks are not cheap. OTOH, cheap is not something I want for something I wear to protect myself from the people who mistakenly think that COVID isn't a thing anymore.
We still have some masks in stock, and I pulled six of them yesterday and packaged them in plastic bags for the SMOFCon trip. I probably won't need all of them, but it's better to have spares for when an elastic band breaks than to be caught short.