Long weekend?!?

killernurd spent Friday gaming with two of his friends from school. They were not playing hooky; they had the day off. They also have tomorrow (Monday) off. Why, on the weekend AFTER Memorial Day, did Fairfax County Public Schools decide to hold a second consecutive long weekend, and even longer than the first one to boot?

Not that stealthcomic or her colleagues are complaining about it, under the circumstances. Of that I am certain (having been in shoes like unto theirs myself). But this is the first time that FCPS has ever pulled this particular stunt, and they did so without any explanation as far as I can tell. So I'm just puzzled.

Anniversary...

You'd think that, after getting a card from my parents, and after we had already discussed it a couple of days earlier, either of us would have remembered ON SATURDAY that Saturday was our anniversary. Nope. montuos remembered in the wee hours of Sunday morning on the way home from gaming at Unicorn's Rest. (Which is technically still Saturday by my usual reckoning, but *STILL!*...)

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This, btw, is the anniversary of Our Big Fat Family Wedding, as opposed to the two that preceded it.