Monday rant

ust because you decided not to work at home, does not
mean that All Americans are against you and hindering your
abilities/plotting evil things, etc (just 89% of us). :^0 :^0

Enjoy your TUESDAY Holiday :^0 :^0
I will certainly enjoy FRIDAY off :D

Oh well, you can still do so anyway.

I will be taking Friday off anyway, watch the fireworks in Washington, burn up some grub and get drunk on the beach from just THIS side of the border.

If it makes you feel any better, I will be spending my holiday weekend cleaning up after renovations needed because some nit drove through our house. I will be vacuuming and wiping plaster dust from everything, washing load after load of laundry, moving 3 rooms of furniture that have been packed into one room back into the rooms in which it belongs, and listening to the old man b*tch interminably because anything outside of plopping in front of the tube is unacceptable activity in his off hours. :D :D :D

now, at least make him leave the couch and make you a
great BBQ dinner :)

It won quite make up for it, but tis a start

Geez, just wish something else on me. I guess this is what I get for being happy that Spain won the Euro Cup. :D

We just call Service Master or their equivalent and they do it all for you while you go away for a week or two, ICBC (provincial auto insurance agent)gets a bill from Servcie Master and it is all new when you get home from your mini-holiday.

by snideley59 Jul 13, 2008

I worked on your holiday...you work on mine. Get a grip

by seanferd Jun 30, 2008

Great googly-moogly. I am ever so sorry to hear that.

I've seen that and similar happen several times. You have my condolences.

'Great googly-moogly'! I love that. Haven't heard it or thought for some time now. Thanks for reminding me.

Is he a real man??
There has to be something that he does, at least once in a
while...

Hmmm, do you have an antenna to break :) Or a cable line
to 'accidentally' till over??

12-16 hours a day, keeps me in 2 homes with nice sized yards, and doesn't try to remake me into someone/thing else.

Easy on the eyes and well-built, too.

Plus, he's quiet! ;)
Can't stand a constant babbler.

etu

Just for you, OZ.

by charliespencer Jun 30, 2008

And that US Independence Day is always on July 4th, not the first Friday in July. The day of the week will change annually. Sometimes it's even on a (gasp) Wednesday.

and a fifth (I never refuse a fifth, btw!)

I always though we skipped it just to be anti-American.

Not to worry, I'll be off Friday too. It's just that drivign back for a dead Monday is a drag (most businesses are closed or flying at half mast today). I should have just taken the day off and am PO'd that I didn't.

I take them off too, but it still sucks THIS year. I am pi$$ed off and alowed to comlain, got a problem with that?

Since you have Friday off then Why Are You Complaining To
Us All????????

by charliespencer Jun 30, 2008

You get Tuesday AND you're taking Friday, while we get only Friday, and YOU'RE the one whose pi$$ed?

by jdclyde Jun 30, 2008

B-)

by ed woychowsky Jun 30, 2008

I've been a consultant too long! When I took an employee position, my wife said, "You have three floating holidays." My response was, "Great, when are those?"

The look that followed translated to "I can't believe that you're that much of an idiot." :)

This bottom feeding, roach ball (great insult, by the way) is pretty f*cking happy to take Friday off. I might not come in Monday, either.

I was jumst complaining that I should have just taken the week off as I am not going in on Friday and now you come up with Monday. If I had'nt been so focused on THIS monday I would have taken next Monday off instead, then I'd have a 4 day weekend too, DAMN I gotta get my sh1t together now.

This is really screwing up my summer, what with work interrupting my fun and all. I am off to Whistler for a week next month but that's a MONTH away. Just a few odd days off here and there in between but nothing substantial. :(

I made it worse X 3..

by notsochiguy Jun 30, 2008

....gets in the way of living!!

Seriously, the best days to take off are the ones when no one else is. Monday after the 4th...BLAH...everyone and their mother will be out and about. Crowded parks, crowded beaches, crowded theaters. Best day to get actual work accomplished is when everyone else has taken the day off from work, too!

Give me the 17th and 18th (first row access to rides at Great America, can see Midnight show of Dark Knight without having to make 5:00am alarm, choice seats at cafes...etc).

That's just me, though. In any event, if you got the days, use them up while the using is good.

plenty of well wishes.

by neon samurai Jun 30, 2008

Now tomorrow, that's going to be at a friends enjoying a good BBq. Work today though; I wasn't one of the smart ones that saved a vacation day too extend my weekend.

I'm leacing after lunch though, this is just stupid. I have way better things to do today than sit around yackin on TR (no offense folks but this is really a daytime at work activity for me).

Happy Canada Day, I guess. I hear that it has some relevance to it, besides a day off.

by gsg Jun 30, 2008

There are a lot of Americans that don't get the day off. I used to have to work every single holiday, including Christmas and New Years. We were a 24 x 7 department and we can't tell patients to not be sick. Even worse are the poor suckers (and I was one of them) that work in retail and have to be at work so some drunk dude can buy more beer and cigarettes.

by captbilly1eye Jun 30, 2008

NOT!

I'm just bummed that the 4th didn't fall on a Thursday this year, 'cause then I woulda got Thursday AND Friday off.

have to say, I'm surprised how many businesses here are now open on Independence Day.

I am just taking Friday off.

May get some work done at home in the morning, may even go see seombody for a bit (but I doubt it). But I sure as hell am not going to spend a day in the office while Americans have barbeques and drink beer, I think I'd rather celebrate America's independence too, if only you actually were independent.

cause you are celebrating OUR holiday :D

I knew there was some hope for you somewhere :^0

I should have taken Monday too, then coming into work for Wednesday and Thrusday would be a waste of time, therefore take the week off. That's how I prefer to do things but I wasn't thinking on Friday and didn't let them know I wouldn't be around.

Seems like some issues are never resolved. Funny how all these script kiddies can build better Britney Spears fansites but with Cnet, they have issues figuring server loads in a forum. Mayve they need to post teh Paris Hilton Sex tapes and make a few bucks to pay for bandwidth.

Talking of sex tapes, have you heard the latest one is by Vern Troyer (MiniMe) the little guy who got pi$$ed on that stupid reality show with Chyna Doll, Peter Brady and others, wound up getting caught butt naked, peeing in the corner of a bedroom in the house they were all staying in.

Vern Vern Vern, when will you learn, you're too wee to be drinkin' with da big boys.

I've never seen any of the internet sex tapes. Not even Pamela and Tommy Lee.

Don't think I'll start with Mini Me. :)

Circus of the Stars, 2008 edition.

You got Tommy, who would make any man cringe, and MiniMe who would make any man laugh.
Then of course there's Paris Hilton, who would make any man need rehab for drinking to much the night before, her former buddy Nicole Richie who's sex tape could have been with Clippy, our old MS Office friend (feel sorry for Lionel having that one for a daughter).

by cball Jun 30, 2008

This American has both Thursday and Friday off because I work at a College here. Although since everyone else will be off, this gives me plenty of time to get things done over the holidays since my users will be out of town. I need to re IP a dept, move some things around in my servers etc;. So even though most of the country is off and i am supposed to get an extra day, I'll be here at the office working!

by captbilly1eye Jun 30, 2008

[b]Pity a Canuck Day[/b]

Now... all you Yanks head home and pick up a six of Labatt on the way.

Then, on Independence Day, send the bill to OZ so he can forward it to England.

:^0

Beer. eeewwww.

by captbilly1eye Jun 30, 2008

But calling that stuff Whiskey (Whisky) is kinda a stretch.

How 'bout some Seagram's coolers instead?

I'd rather watch Buffy reruns..

or read a book.
take a nap.
wash my hair.

by jck Jun 30, 2008

Come down and have a beer with me :)

flordia? I haven't been anywhere outside of Disneyland, I might get shot. I heard what it's like there.

Maybe one day though.

by ed woychowsky Jun 30, 2008

Sorry, but I don't feel guilty. You see I just accepted an employee position after 10 years of being a consultant, so this will be my first paid day off in 10 years. I'm still trying to wrap my head around that, there isn't any room left for guilt.

by jmgarvin Jun 30, 2008

Really, this whole July 4th thing is cool and all, but work doesn't stop when you're working for an international company.

For some reason the Aussies, Germans, and Brits don't want to shut down on Thursday...

you'll just need to 'teach' them huh :^0

Just turn off all of the systems and say -- Oops! :^0

by nicknielsen Jun 30, 2008

So get drunk tonight and sleep it off tomorrow, for dudley's sake.

Any morning you can sleep late is a holiday. Take advantage of it!

by mjd420nova Jun 30, 2008

Like has been stated, it only happens once every seven years. Yes, I do get Friday off, but due to the cheap employer I work for, I don't get paid and have to work Saturday if I want to get my fourty hours pay. That SUX, big time. I'd like to stay up and shoot off some fireworks and down a few beers, but NO, I have to work the next day. No three day weekend for me.

by seanferd Jun 30, 2008

First ever I heard the phrase, I thought: Thanksgiving, Easter, and what else?

by ed woychowsky Jul 1, 2008

Fourth of July will be observed on Friday, July 3rd? :)

by jdclyde Jul 1, 2008

The year after it will float to Monday though. :(

by seanferd Jun 30, 2008

run a four foot section of #8 rebar through my cranium.

by ben "iron" damper Jul 1, 2008

Well that's what you get for living in Canada AKA HELL!

by jdclyde Jul 1, 2008

Worked over last night, so will be skipping out a few hours early on Thursday to make up the time, and start my holiday that much sooner.

Heck, I might stay over a little bit tonight and make it a half day on Thursday?

And of course, it is a given that [b]EVERYONE[/b] has Friday off.... ;\

I prefer to go camping on a Wednesday, go to teh beach on a Tuesday morning etc too.

like today, I think I'll go enjoy Granville Island Market, then hang at the beach for a while until friends are off work to join me for beers and a BBQ at the beach.

by jaqui Jul 2, 2008

go to the cannabis day celebration?

or at least have fun yesterday?

I worked on the first, slept afterwards until the second.. no doing nuthin for me.

I did do white rock, pretty cool and have the day off today to get my truck back from the tow yard. I was parked on a friends back lawn, when they started towing all the cars without permits on the street, they pulled my truck too.

They wanted $120.00, seeing as my bro just got out of hospital, I couldn't just send him down there. It took most of the day to get the owner but they had no choice but to release it. My friend took pictures of people partying out back, one showed my truck in the background, parked well onto his back lawn and off the street. Now I will have to set up the civil suits on the driver and the owner for wasting my time and impounding my truck for a day. Mucho prickos!! Bollock faced clowns.
They only just got the city permit to tow out there this year, hopefully a few more negligence suits find the city a new company next year.

But yeah, had fun anyway.

by jaqui Jul 3, 2008

you didn't go to the Vancouver Art Gallery and sit by the funtain / Olympic countdown clock and get stoned on weed with the other 10,000 people there?

and get free seeds from Mark Emory's shop?
[ if you caught them when they were thrown into the crowd ]

and get yer picture taken by the police for investigation for drug dealing etc.

you know, all he fun and games that happen there. :D

by locrian_lyric Jul 2, 2008

unless you go from the 3rd to the 5th, you don't skip the 4th.