| WaltOHara | 07 Oct 2005 10:38 a.m. PST |
Not being a Military type, and thus not entitled to bail out of the workplace for a three day weekend early (like everybody else around here), the office is now as quiet as a sepulcher. For those of still stuck here, I present for your amusement, "THE EYES ARE THE WINDOWS OF THE SOUL" link Have fun, Walt |
aecurtis  | 07 Oct 2005 10:54 a.m. PST |
Jesus don't surf! (I hadn't checked th blog lately) Allen |
| Utini420 | 07 Oct 2005 11:12 a.m. PST |
Why is this a 3-Day? What country? What's going on? |
| Jay Arnold | 07 Oct 2005 11:24 a.m. PST |
Columbus Day is Monday in the US. Most banks and governemnt offices will be closed. Many schools as well. When I was on active duty at Ft. Bragg, every 3-day weekend became a 4-day weeken automatically. It was a pretty easy way to keep the grunts in line. There was at least one every month. From memory (it's been eight years):
January: New Years
February: President's Day
March: Easter/Just Because (depended on the year)
April: Easter/Just Because (depended on the year)
May: Memorial Day
June: Army Day/Flag Day/Just Because
July: July 4th
August: Just Because
September: Labor Day
October: Columbus Day
Novemebr: Thanksgiving
December: Christmas |
Skeets  | 07 Oct 2005 11:35 a.m. PST |
In Massachusetts our holiday schedule for goverment workers: January – New Years and Marting Luther King Day
February – President's Day
March – Evacuation Day (Suffolk County Only)
April – Patriots Day
May – Memorial Day
June – Bunker Hill Day (Suffolk County Only)
July – Independence Day
September – Labor Day
October – Columbus Day
November – Veterans Day and Thanksgiving
December -Christmas |
| Jay Arnold | 07 Oct 2005 11:41 a.m. PST |
How could I have forgotten about Vet's Day in November! We had two 4-days in November at Ft. Bragg. We also had a 4-day when Nixon died. |
| rokknroll | 07 Oct 2005 11:50 a.m. PST |
americans do know that columbus didnt actually discover america right? |
| WaltOHara | 07 Oct 2005 11:57 a.m. PST |
I think we may have an inkling, yes. Columbus Day was a big holiday growing up; nowadays it's kind of meaningless unless you are a government worker or of Italian heritage. I'm neither. Walt |
 Parzival | 07 Oct 2005 12:10 p.m. PST |
I know who #1 is. The rest I either don't know, or the pictures are too blurry to tell. |
| Dave Jackson | 07 Oct 2005 12:11 p.m. PST |
It is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada…… |
| WaltOHara | 07 Oct 2005 12:34 p.m. PST |
Sometimes it's easier to see it when you view the EYES as a slideshow: link |
 BrigadeGames  | 07 Oct 2005 1:19 p.m. PST |
all you people with Monday off……ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!! |
| Hacksaw | 07 Oct 2005 1:24 p.m. PST |
I want to know how much time Walt has spent in a sepulchre to be able to make the comparison regarding the noise level. I suppose it would make an interesting place to game certain genres ;-) |
| jtipp68 | 07 Oct 2005 1:43 p.m. PST |
"americans do know that columbus didnt actually discover america right?" No…we're much too busy listening to Brittany Spears cd's and eating Big Mac's to know anything about ourselves. We depend on vastly more intelligent Europeans to teach us our own history. |
| WaltOHara | 07 Oct 2005 2:07 p.m. PST |
I want to know how much time Walt has spent in a sepulchre to be able to make the comparison regarding the noise level. My parents had big plans for me when I was a lad.. but I managed to dig my way out!! |
| Janean | 07 Oct 2005 2:20 p.m. PST |
To tell Italian-Americans that Columbus did not discover America is impertinent and likely to encourage a barrage of recklessly-flung vermicelli, chunks of chicken cacciatora, and perhaps an empty wine bottle or two. Being of Viking heritage, I celebrate Bjarni Herjolfsson. It's not just because BJ inspired Leif Erikson to check out a land with a hilly coastline and green trees. I appreciate BJ because when he realized that landscape ahead wasn't the familiar glaciers and fiords of Greenland, he turned around and went for home. I tend to make the same mistake ;-p |
| Parzival | 07 Oct 2005 8:46 p.m. PST |
There was an Irish saint who beat 'em all. But then, the immigrants who wandered across the Bering land bridge probably have the best claim. However, the only person to "discover" the Americas and have the discovery stick with everyone else was Columbus. All the previous discoveries were forgotten, and for our modern world remain only interesting footnotes of history stumbed upon after the fact. |
| Loren Wiseman | 07 Oct 2005 10:19 p.m. PST |
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| WaltOHara | 09 Oct 2005 9:04 a.m. PST |
Man, two guesses. Do we never look at the news? |
| WaltOHara | 11 Oct 2005 7:22 a.m. PST |
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| Probert | 11 Oct 2005 8:02 a.m. PST |
So that is why I didn't get any mail. |
| WaltOHara | 12 Oct 2005 4:00 a.m. PST |
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