Plans for the Memorial Day Weekend?

[yesdachi]

How bout it, anyone with interesting plans for this upcoming extended (for some) weekend?

Aside form the typical yard work, I think we will visit my grandfather who is in the hospital (scary situation at first but he is recovering well) and misses-dachi would like to attend a flea market, I am not a big fan but they always have elephant ears and that might be worth it (oh-yah, there is that making the misses happy thing too ). Not too exciting but there you have it.

I hope someone has better plans than that I’d like to live vicariously thru someone.

[Lemur]

This is pathetically geeky, and anybody who makes fun of it will feel the wrath of the lemur, but, well ... I'm speaking at a literary convention. And then I'm coming home for some BBQ with the family. I think there's going to be a parade in my town, as well.

[Csargo]

I'm going on vacation with my family to Washington D.C. hopefully that'll be fun and I just got out of school so its all good.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

This is pathetically geeky, and anybody who makes fun of it will feel the wrath of the lemur,

Pfft, that's nothing. I'm holding a two-day, twenty man LAN party. Truly the geek event to top all others.

Otherwise, today marked the end of my involvement in non-higher education, so I've been out on the lash. Still a bit tipsy.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

What game for the LAN party BKS?

I think I'm gonna chill and watch "Washington: The Warrior" at night on the history channel.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I'm going to climb a mountain ( a small one ) as part of a mountains to ocean relay. Visit family, play football.

Crazed Rabbit

[Zalmoxis]

This is pathetically geeky, and anybody who makes fun of it will feel the wrath of the lemur, but, well ... I'm speaking at a literary convention. And then I'm coming home for some BBQ with the family. I think there's going to be a parade in my town, as well.

That's geeky? Anyway, I'm gonna be out only on Saturday, probably all day, though I haven't decided what exactly I'm going to do.

[Justiciar]

Gah.. for those of us that forget our own birthdays from time to time.. what's so significant about this weekend?

[Redleg]

Going to spend some time reflecting and remembering my mother who passed away some time ago.

Then of course their is yard work, an automobile to fix - got to change the water pump, attempt to get my brother to come over and have a BBQ and allow the kids to play.

[Duke Malcolm]

Might I ask what it is you Americans are remembering? We Commonwealth folk are celebrating Victoria Day, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth...

[Redleg]

Might I ask what it is you Americans are remembering? We Commonwealth folk are celebrating Victoria Day, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth...

Memorial Day was initially meant to remember all who have faught and died for the nation.

With the changes to Veterns Day - Memorial Day is now used to remember the departed family members.

[Kanamori]

I've planned a fifty mile bike ride along some scenic paths. Probably then, I'll end up grilling with my family. Beside the obligatory trip to the cemetary, for both my uncles who were shot down over Vietnam, that's probably about it.

[Strike For The South]

Going to cowboys. Get drunk and be somebody!

[Banquo's Ghost]

Going to cowboys. Get drunk and be somebody!

For some reason, this provoked a horrible vision not unassociated with 'Brokeback Mountain'...

[Red Peasant]

Might I ask what it is you Americans are remembering? We Commonwealth folk are celebrating Victoria Day, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth...

DM, no offence mate, but you really are an Empire geek!

I like to think of myself of pretty well informed, but I've never, ever heard of that one. Oh, the shame, the shame

[Marcellus]

DM, no offence mate, but you really are an Empire geek!

I like to think of myself of pretty well informed, but I've never, ever heard of that one. Oh, the shame, the shame

I hadn't heard of it either, so I looked it up on Wikipedia. Apparently it's mainly celebrated in Canada and in some parts of Scotland, particularly in Edinburgh and Dundee (which is where Duke Malcolm lives).

[Duke Malcolm]

Only Dundee and Edinburgh... I didn't know that... Isn't Victoria Day a nation-wide bank holiday?

[scotchedpommes]

Not observed up here, as far as I'm aware.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Only Dundee and Edinburgh... I didn't know that... Isn't Victoria Day a nation-wide bank holiday?

There is a public holiday throughout the UK on Monday 29th, but I think most people know it simply as 'Spring Bank Holiday'. That's what it says in my diary, anyhow.

[Duke Malcolm]

Really?
On the handy newsletter we get from my school it is listed as the Victoria Day Bank Holiday.

Well, you know now the holiday is because of Victoria Day...

[Red Peasant]

There is a public holiday throughout the UK on Monday 29th, but I think most people know it simply as 'Spring Bank Holiday'. That's what it says in my diary, anyhow.

Yup, just Spring Bank Holiday to us here. I'm sure old Vicky doesn't need a paltry day to commemorate herself when she has a whole, and significant, historical epoch named after her.

Yeah DM, now I know, eh?

However, it seems to have an older association with Whitsun, the official end of the Easter period (Pentecost). I learn something every day.

[lars573]

Might I ask what it is you Americans are remembering? We Commonwealth folk are celebrating Victoria Day, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth...

Actually you are celebrating it today. I had a bank holiday last monday (May 22nd). Won't be another bank holiday until July 1st, dominion day (but we just call it Canada day). Also Victoria day replaced empire day years ago.

[Duke Malcolm]

Yes, Empire Day was shifted to the first or second Monday of May and later renamed Commonwealth Day, HM the Queen gives an address to the Commonwealth.

I know I am celebrating it today -- Doctor Dolittle, Bridge on the River Kwai, and Zulu were all on consecutively today -- I meant that's what we are celebrating this weekend in general.

We always get the Monday after May 24th off, unless it falls on a Monday.

[scotchedpommes]

My, I almost feel the need to protest at the lack of a holiday!

[solypsist]

getting ready to head out to litle rock, arkansas for tuesday and wednesday. i wonder what they have to eat down there?

[yesdachi]

Weekend update: no elephant ears at the flea market. but my grandpa is doing better.

Sidenote about my visit to the hospital: the second bed in my grandpa’s room was occupied by a drunk who was going thru detox and had a seizure and had to go to the hospital. Poster child for not ruining your life as an alcoholic, all I’m gunna say is, bedpan, #2, and 6 people in the room helping . Not that I don’t already, but after that little experience I’ll be drinking responsibly, not just for the day but for my life.