No, Sue, it's not a holiday in the U.S. What holiday is it in Canada?

I've already given the "gift" portion; that's what sticking me. This gift is supposed to be CASH, in an envelope, which either she's going to come around and collect, or we're going to hand them in some sort of procession line, either way it will be painfully obvious to everyone who brought an envelope full of cash and who didn't. I wish I had the option now to skip it entirely, but I've already RSVPed and it's too late to back out.

Just so you can feel more justified. This is totally awful and crazy and if I were you I would bail immediately. That's just me and my reaction though. GOD. People. UGH.

Um, it's just the August long weekend. Most places it's a civic holiday, but it's called different things everywhere. We call it Natal Day.

Apparently this cash-giving thing is a tradition, a thing that is Done. I resented the expectation of public money-giving more than the gift itself. It is a wedding gift, after all, even though I didn't go to the actual wedding.

Apparently this cash-giving thing is a tradition, a thing that is Done.

Just because people say over and over a thing's a thing, doesn't make it a thing. IJS. Traditions can still be tacky, and you still have the right to be offended and decline to participate in them.

Um, it's just the August long weekend. Most places it's a civic holiday, but it's called different things everywhere. We call it Natal Day.

That's just nice. Wiki suggested August 7 was B.C. Day in Canada, but I wasn't sure why that would be a holiday outside of B.C., unless there's a day for every province. Then I found this: [link]

Wiki suggested August 7 was B.C. Day in Canada

To celebrate, do people dress up as cavemen and ride stone unicycles?

Zenkitty- Is there some sort of money dance or something or are people just walking up and giving cash? I know at my friend Maria's wedding (we are Italian) her mom had her carry around a purse so people could walk up to her and give her money, but that was mostly her relatives, and I think they gave in addition to their gift. This seemed to be traditional, but no one seemed angry if you didn't give and there was no point at which it was really obvious that you weren't doing it

Good lord, I stay offline and all this drama! Marriages, birthdays, kidney stones, 15 hour overnight hikes in a storm...oh wait, that wasn't here.

When my dad says "that was probably the stupidest thing I've ever done," and this is a man who has fallen off a cliff in a cave on a training mission, he isn't kidding. He had a search and rescue mission for some lost hikers up in the mountains. In the middle of incredible storms that have turned the rivers into really scary things. What followed was a 15 hour slippery hike following a river down the mountain in the dark that included fording the river on an old fallen log that was slippery and old and did I mention the river was angry and it was dark? He once told me he didn't plan dying of decrepitude, and he may just be right. Lord.

To make things more entertaining, another team found a small plane wing. Fairly recently deposited. And there haven't been any reported missing planes in the area. So. Another S&R, except it is more search and salvage, is planned very soon because the authorities are a little jittery about unaccounted for crashed planes in that part of the country, if you know what I mean.

bon, post more. Want to see drunken posts.

Sorry about that, I fell into bed. But now I'm cranky from fragmented sleep.

ION, I need grammar advice. How would people punctuate the following?

One action, Plaintiff v. Defendant & Co., Inc., et al., CV 3:06-00### (S.D. Ill.), in which Plaintiff filed a motion to vacate CTO-54[,] was remanded by the Hon. Judge Judge on July 31, 2006.

Should the comma in the brackets stay or go?