Weekend!
This is what I was doing last weekend (I’m the guy who was holding the camera):
This weekend? I’m going to do my darnest to do diddly squat. Call it a victory lap.
So… what’s on your docket?
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I will be avoiding Bay to Breakers on Sunday. Just like I avoid it every year.Report
We’re going to see Moosh and Twist tomorrow night. If you don’t know who Moosh and Twist are, that’s because you’re old enough to buy beer. Therefore, I will be be spending my Friday evening feeling old. The price of a partner who is forever young, I suppose.
Saturday, I plan on telling some youngins to get off my lawn, yelling at the television, and finding a car to drive slowly in the left lane with my blinker constantly on. And napping (that part is true).Report
“We’re going to see Moosh and Twist tomorrow night. If you don’t know who Moosh and Twist are, that’s because you’re old enough to buy beer.”
Ha!
I think you should do the twist at the concert.Report
Oh, and congratulations!Report
Thank you!Report
While both Jaybird and I DESERVE to do diddly-squat (and we keep trying to do so), we won’t actually be doing so.
Friday: testing out the summer’s Friday-means-we-sit-on-the-porch, though the only people invited are selected just-about-to-graduate students from my workplace, mostly ones that are no longer in my employ. (This is an annual tradition.)
Saturday: one of my oldest friends here (we finished undergrad together) is graduating from her master’s program.
And then, something that will take up the rest of Saturday AND Sunday: We are adopting a 4th cat under urgent circumstances.
Fortunately, the last one will at least involve a lot of sitting quietly with various kitties as we let new cat get used to his house (or at least, to the one room he’ll be in at first) and his new people, and as we reassure all the old kitties that we still love them best.
Still it would be very nice to have a weekend some day where absolutely nothing of interest happens.Report
So far, new cat has hissed at me a billion times.
Sigh.Report
Sigh, indeed.
A few things to try:
1) ignore it. (this works better with dogs, however). Be there, but do not look, reach, etc.;
2) meow. Talk to it in cat.
3) be patient. And warm. Kitty’s like to be warm.Report
Dude, who hasn’t?Report
Congratulations! And good luck with the new kitty.
Today is my daughter’s birthday, so she gets to take cupcakes to preschool, which is about as exciting as it gets. The party’s not till next week, as lots of people will be out of town for the long weekend, but I’ll still probably swing by the bakery on the way home and pick up a cake.
The second of the two shows my wife has been working madly on opens tonight, after which she will probably pour herself a large glass of wine and gradually relax her shoulders.
On Saturday, if the stars align right, we’ll go camping until Monday.Report
Thank you. Congratulations to your wife on being ALMOST there herself!Report
Maribou!
You bless us. You’re shining and beautiful and proud.Report
Aw. Well,now I am also blushing. Thank you.Report
Congrats!
And also, this has been stuck in my head for hours after seeing this comment:
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Heh. And, thank you.Report
Congratulations Maribou!Report
Thanks, James! You might be amused to know that one of the things I am really looking forward to doing now that I’m not in school is getting back to my giant reread of all Terry Pratchett’s books :).Report
Congratulations, Maribou!Report
Thanks, Katherine! Did I tell you I finished Game of Thrones Season 3? I meant to but I might have forgotten… these past few weeks have been craaaazy.Report
Infinite congratulations.Report
Thank you.Report
Congratulations! That’s what we’re doing tomorrow morning. After six years, two schools, and I think, three? changes in major, our oldest puts on the cap and gown. Whew!
Now she goes to grad school. [shakes head]Report
Thanks, Road! Congratulations to your oldest as well.Report
This is for Maribou and the rest of you, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPHhnA14PGcReport
:D.Report
Congratulations, Maribou!
Myself, I’m recovering from this past week’s road trip. I’m getting too old to drive 1100 miles with an eight-month old strapped into her car seat in the back. Overall, the granddaughter was a real trooper, napping a reasonable portion of the trip and allowing herself to be distracted by various things most of the rest of the time. And my Mom, the great-grandmother, was very pleased about the visit.Report
Thanks, Michael! And I’m glad you had a good trip. Some things that aren’t a lot of fun are still extremely satisfying.Report
One of the real surprises was watching an eight-month-old enjoy the zoo. She liked the big cats, and was absolutely enthralled in the aquarium where she could sit on a shelf, put her forehead up against the plexiglass of the big tank and watch the sharks and rays swimming around.Report
Thirteen and one-tenth miles. One hour and fifty-six minutes.Report
And congratulations abound for Maribou.Report
Thanks, Kazzy!Report
You’ll be happy to know I have reinvigorated my love for the library. When I lived across the street from a state-of-the-art one in Yonkers, I was a regular visitor. The relatively newfound ability for libraries to cluster and share resources AND to make these shared resources accessible via the internet (i.e., I can request a book anywhere in the cluster and have it delivered to my local library in a relatively short period of time) is wonderful. It took me a while to get acquainted with the system where we live now, but am excited now that I am.
Often, it’s faster to request a book via the library than to get one delivered via Amazon. And it’s free!!! WHO KNEW?!?!Report
@kazzy Hooray! (I did know that, but lots of people don’t. Here at my workplace, we’re part of a 45-library 2-state cluster (some of them have branches), which is about to hook up with a 70-library cluster that covers three other states. Thank goodness for geographically-weighted algorithms….Report
@maribou
I don’t know what a geographically-whatevered whoziwhatsit is, but that sounds awesome for your area!
I’ve always been a big fan of libraries, but moreso in principal than in practice. Some of my fondest memories growing up involved our local library. I understand many libraries face budget cuts and other issues. I don’t know how widespread the problem is, but it is problematic. I wonder how many people know how the internet and the partnering of libraries have improved things. For instance, I can expect an email in the next day or so telling me that the entire set of discs for “The Wire: Season 2” is ready for me to pickup. Hot damn!
My school currently lacks a library. Or, we have a library space — a room full of books — but no librarian. It is a damn shame. One of the supposed elements of a “21st century school” is to be library-less. The idea is that knowledge, information, and resources shouldn’t be concentrated in a static room. Which tells me that people who push such ideas don’t really know how libraries work.Report
Congratulations, Maribou!Report
Thanks, Mike!Report
Congratulations, Maribou!!! How exciting 😀
I hiked, ate, and soaked up the sun at the beach. It was fantastic :). I’m avoiding firing my gardener. 🙁 I’m such a conflict avoider.Report
Thank you! Sounds like a lovely weekend. I also hate firing people. Hope it goes as well as possible.Report
Saw a great exhibit on American Landscape painters and the Hudson River School at the Frick.Report