Weekend!

29 thoughts on “Weekend!”

1. I’m doing the next 3 B5 posts.

   Okay, I’m doing the next 2 B5 posts and the last one, which I haven’t done yet.Report

2. I’ve had freelancers luck of an unofficial vacation because my assignments ended and my boss has yet to give me more to do. He has been in the process of doing so. If he does, I’ll be working. If not, there is a showing of The Thomas Crowne Affair (Steve McQueen version).Report

   1. Really, is there another version?Report

      1. Pierce Brosnon and Rene Russo remake. They steal art instead.Report

      2. Well, I was trying to make a funny, but it apparently flopped. That said, I am not a fan of remaking movies that were successful. There are plenty of “almost there” movies that could be remade, how about fixing those?Report

3. Going out to dinner with a friend tonight. Then Friday will be the busiest day of the year at work, I think. Whenever I and my beloved minions finish checking in ALL OF THE BOOKS (5? 7? 10?), I will go home and zone out until I fall asleep. Saturday I’m visiting friends in Denver, Sunday the friend who is going to check on the cats is coming over to get the lowdown and I will be doing laundry and maybe even starting to pack, Monday I have a breakfast date with Jaybird’s mom and dinner with our Monday night friends, interspersed with finishing packing. Tuesday I fly out to visit Jaybird!

   (It’s all weekend once winter break starts on Friday night, hence my extendamix.)Report

4. Been a hectic week at my work, which will include Sat. dayshift. Saturday eve, noting the passage of the solstice with family to include some Christmas-lights viewing. Sunday an unabashed, guiltfree day of vegging, with a little football on the telly. Off on Monday, taking Raven & our spawn to see the next installment of “The Hobbit”.Report

5. This will be the final, very last, thank god this is done, parts of moving.Report

6. Heading off on our annual Christmas trip. This year we’re taking the kids to Cleveland, a city none of us has ever visited, where we’ll see the rockenroll hall of fame, the aquarium (with walk through shark tank!) and the science center which currently has an exhibit of Titanic artifacts. Plus, some selection of Turkish, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Korean or Ethiopian food. (With so much variety in food, how can the city possibly be a mistake on the lake?)Report

   1. Don’t forget to see the Hellmouth while you’re in Cleveland.Report

      1. You wouldn’t happen to have coordinates for it, would you? 😉Report

      2. Just listen for the weeping and gnashing of teeth, you can’t miss it.Report

      3. Just listen for the weeping and gnashing of teeth

         So you just need to find your way to FirstEnergy Stadium, then.Report

      4. Chris beat me to it. Our hotel is kitty corner from the stadium…are the Browns at home Sunday?

         Went to the art museum today, her nice, and ate Korean food. The kids all ate octopus and kimchee–I have awesome kids.Report

      5. I also love Korean food. Now I’m jealous.

         Fortunately for you (traffic-wise, at least), the Browns are in East Rutherford Sunday.Report

      6. Went to the art museum today, her nice, and ate Korean food. The kids all ate octopus and kimchee

         That’s a good squid pro quo.Report

   2. Oh man, I love Ethiopian food.

      Have fun in Cleveland.Report

   3. Too bad you’ll miss seeing a game at the Jake. It was one of the first new-style (that is, idealized old-style) ballparks and an integral part of the Tribe’s renaissance in the mid-90s.Report

7. Clancy passed the boards! Clancy passed the boards! We’ve been waiting on pins and needles since she took the test. She was convinced that she did very poorly and had even asked around the office what would happen if she had to retake them (the answer was, it wouldn’t be the first time this happened and she would still have a job).

   Not only did she pass it, she moidahed it. She got 670 out of 800, with only a 390 needed to pass.

   Clancy being Clancy, her thought is “Next time I will just have to study much, much harder so that I don’t spend six weeks needlessly worrying about it.” I can only barely follow the logic…Report

   1. Congratulations to Clancy!Report

   2. Hurray!Report

   3. Excellent! Are any celebrations specific to passing the boards on the agenda, or will that just add to a pervasively festive atmosphere?Report

      1. Our celebration will be in the negative. We will celebrate by not spending our next week scheduling the retest and figuring out how I am going to afford her the time to study for it.Report

   4. Congrats!

      And that really is a better response than “Cool, next time I won’t study at all”, held by some children I’m otherwise reasonably fond of.Report

8. As for this weekend, we’re flying back home tomorrow. Then spending a few days with my family and a few days with hers.Report

9. Tonight or tomorrow I’ll make my birthday cake. Normally I would have made it a month ago to let it properly soak up enough rum, but I’m late starting this year.

   Tomorrow night we get on the train and head home for the holidays. The timing is fortunate – If we were leaving earlier, I wouldn’t be home to get the newspaper with the giant Christmas crossword, and my dad and I would be circling his one copy like vultures.Report

10. Looks like I will be seeing the Thomas Crowne affair and potentially Inside Llewlyn Davis on Sunday.

    My long-distance girlfriend is heading to London on Saturday.Report

    1. So she’ll be your longer-distance girlfriend.Report

11. For the first time since I was 15, I have next week (mostly) off, though New Year’s Day.

    I’m…kinda giddy about that.Report

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