But we should do St. Pat's like the Newfs, who have a holiday.
They have that in Boston, too -- but not for St. Paddy's Day, oh no! It just happens to be the day the British evacuated Boston. Therefore, Evacuation Day.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2009 9:40:36 am PDT #11147 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Mar 17, 2009 9:41:35 am PDT #11148 of 30000
Sue - Mar 17, 2009 9:45:56 am PDT #11149 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Newfoundland also used to have a holiday the Battle of the Boyne, just to be fair to all sides of the Irish conflict. I don't think that's a statutory holiday anymore though.
Newfoundland public holidays. Outside the usual ones:
16 Mar St Patrick's Day.
20 Apr St George's Day.
22 Jun Discovery Day.
13 Jul Orangemen's Day
Scrappy - Mar 17, 2009 9:46:32 am PDT #11150 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I have a busy week or so coming up--a business trip to Minneapolis all next week (which is full of what promises to be kinda stressful meetings), then I get back Friday night. Early Saturday morning, we drive up north to take care of my MiL, who is having surgery next week. The DH stays there, but I get on the train late Sunday to be at work Monday morning. Not terrible, but tiring nonetheless.
However, once I get through that I just found out that I get to go with DH to a schmancy Audi weekend event, being held at this place nest weekend: [link] I am really excited! This is the fanciest hotel I will have ever stayed at--so gorgeous. And they pay for dinner on a boat one night and for a bike trip around Santa Barbara, which sounds really fun.
Trudy Booth - Mar 17, 2009 9:47:23 am PDT #11151 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Do most people wear helmets while skiing, though? Or beginners, anyway?
Not in my experience -- though I've never been a huge skier.
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2009 9:48:16 am PDT #11152 of 30000
brillig
Every year here in Utah we have a few people who die on the ski runs from running into trees or whatnot. Trees don't yield.
tommyrot - Mar 17, 2009 9:55:44 am PDT #11153 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gudanov - Mar 17, 2009 9:53:20 am PDT #11154 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
The obvious solution to the wooden menace is to have real trees removed from all ski slopes and replaced by breakaway plastic models.
Emily - Mar 17, 2009 9:54:31 am PDT #11155 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
That is weird that she seemed fine afterward.
Actually not strange (or, rather, not unusual). It was a plot point in Busman's Honeymoon, and also what happened to my grandmother.
Gudanov - Mar 17, 2009 10:02:10 am PDT #11156 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Speaking of models of natural objects. On the way to work this morning, I was going down a road on the fringe of my neighborhood and saw that some vandals apparently busted apart a model deer that has been in somebody's yard for years. Also it appears someone had played mailbox baseball along the road as well. F**k you fake deer killers!