My lonely Volvo on Assembly Street at mid-morning.
When I parked on Assembly Street this morning, I had an entire block of spaces to choose from. When I came back an hour later, my old Volvo was still alone, except for one car at the very end of the block that you can’t see in the picture above.
Were you off today? If so, fie on you.
Personally, I have never had a job in which this was a holiday.
And further, what does this “holiday” mean to you? It’s not Washington’s Birthday, although — I was surprised to learn — that is the official name of the day (Wikipedia says it’s only called “Presidents’ Day” colloquially). It’s not Lincoln’s birthday.
It’s sort of like… not anything really. At least on Columbus Day — another holiday I’ve never had off from work for — we can have big Culture War over the meaning. But what does this one mean?
It’s about as vague as you can get….
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And yeah, I kinda know the answer to my question: federal and state employees, and probably bankers and lawyers.
But I just felt like ranting about it a bit…
This lawyer is working today. Most other lawyers I know are also working.
I don’t know about the bankers.
I threw in lawyers because there are a bunch of lawyers in the building I was going into, and still all the spaces were empty. But I guess that’s because they all have spaces in the parking garage.
But nobody’s coming to SEE the lawyers, apparently…
You won’t like this Brad, but President’s Day should be shifted to the day after the Super Bowl. That would be something both parties could actually get behind and support without much opposition.
When I’m elected President, there will be a national holiday every month. All the new ones will be on Fridays, though.
OK by me. But I think you’re making the Trump mistake: Assuming the president gets to do what he wants. He still hasn’t figured out why he can’t just give an order to end the Russia investigation.
I think it would be awesome to take off the day after the Super Bowl. I would love to celebrate Annual End of Football Day…
But before I vote for your bill, I want an amendment: The Super Bowl must be played on or before Jan. 12. That’s the date on which the first game CALLED “Super Bowl” was played, in 1969.
Something must be done to keep this abomination from creeping further into February.
By the way, Jan. 12, 1969, was also the day that I quit being a football fan.
After suffering through the last two years of the hated Packers being hailed as world champs, finally my Colts held the honor. They were the champions of the NFL!
There was just this one silly post-season exhibition against the champs of the laughable AFL to get out of the way.
And the Jets beat them. Worse, they beat them after days of having to listen to that idiot Joe Namath boasting that he WOULD beat them.
That was it. I wasn’t going to follow such a capricious game any more…
Here’s the new National Holiday Schedule:
January: New Years Day and MLK Day
February: Sports and Recreation Day (Monday after Super Bowl)
March: first Friday in March is now Presidents Day
April: Monday on or after April 15th – Tax Day (no sales taxes collected in any state)
May: Memorial Day
June: Second Friday – Heritage Day (celebrate your roots)
July: Fourth of July
August: First Friday – Peace Day (we need at least one to counter all the war related holidays)
September: Labor Day
October: First Friday – National Parks Day (free entry to all parks)
November: Veteran’s Day and Thanksgiving
December: Christmas
Who says no?
I will also push for a national four day work week…
Why an MLK Day and a Peace Day? Aren’t they the same thing? Christmas and MLK Day… the only two national holidays named for a single person. MLK is not Jesus Christ unless he too plagiarized and committed adultery.
April – Why a national no tax day… just go online any of the other 364 days and buy your items.
“Christmas and MLK Day… the only two national holidays named for a single person.”
What group is Columbus Day named for? And technically, President’s Day is Washington’s Birthday, as I noted above…
Typical Libertarian overreach–telling me when I can and can’t work. 😉
What does this have to do with Trump?
Nevermind, everything you discuss these days revolves around Trump.
Actually, it doesn’t. I pass up about 99 percent of the opportunities to mention the cretin.
But if you don’t like it when I DO mention him, don’t read it…
“But if you don’t like it when I DO mention him, don’t read it…”
So you’re telling me to not read 99% of your comments.
Suit yourself. I’m going to say what I’m going to say. I’m with Max Boot:
” the cretin”
Funny isn’t it, if I had ever called Obama or Hillary that you would have rejected my post. When the term fits both, the latter especially.
Except, of course, it doesn’t. No serious person doubts the intelligence of either of them, whatever else one may say about them…
If it makes you feel any better, I don’t like calling people names, and I don’t like defending myself when I do. But sometimes, the usual words just don’t fully express the point that I’m trying to make. It happens. I’m not proud of it…
None of y’all caught the really stupid typo in the headline (which is fixed now).
What do I pay you people for?
Come on, Brad. Stop being an old curmudgeon. Presidents Day is a federa holiday and state and local governments follow suit. That’s why you won’t get mail today, the schools are out and (maybe) the banks are closed. At least, the feds eliminated another designed holiday — Lincoln’s birthday — by combining Abe and George Washington’s birthdays into Presidents Day. Today is no different than any other federal holiday, such as Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, July 4th, MLK Day.
But it’s probably the one farthest removed from anything I regard as an actual holiday, something that calls for some sort of observance…
Some schools were out. It’s a weather make up day for most districts. My children were all at school.
Yep, you’re right about the schools being in session. Usually, students are off on Presidents Day, but it was used as a weather make-up school day. At least, it was in Richland District Two. I saw the school buses. So, I should have written that the schools are open but the banks are closed. Yes, this was a banking holiday. Nobody was at First Citizens when I used the ATM.
At the time that was taken most people with real jobs had already been at work for hours… not finishing up their breakfast at “the club”.
You’ve really got a bee in your bonnet about that, don’t you? It’s one of the ways we know you, whatever name you’re using at a given time…
In any case, obviously those people with “real jobs” weren’t at them today, or there would be cars parked in those spaces.
Guess they aren’t “real jobs” then…
How many business people do you know who eat breakfast until 10:00 every morning? Most business people I know are in at 8:00. Maybe you work until 7:00.
In response to the backhanded comment, when is the last time I’ve changed my name? 2-3 years ago when I went from Claus to Claus2 because either you blocked me permanently or the system did. Boy that must be a textbook Sherlock Holmes moment of detective work there to realize I’m the same person.
20 days until Daylight Savings Time… then we get to listen to you complain about that for the next six months.
Again, don’t read it if you don’t like it. There are loads of sites out there you would enjoy more…
Doug, I second that schedule! And Brad, we retirees are also off on this and every Monday. 🙂
Aiken school district was out. They are a bit more conservative about calling days. We only had one to make up and they took it off of Christmas. But I spent the day working anyway, writing IEPs. 4 meetings this week. I’m tired.
Speaking of IEPs, the Florida shooter had one.