Yesterday

[da]

Yesterday was fun: dinner with good friends. bats22 is staying over the weekend. I had a lot of fun joking with him, chezmax, the_infamous_j, and melted_snowball about the annoying commercial holiday it happened to be, about robots with flamethrowers, and considering the PTO possibilities for a Mix-master.

d. made a wonderful meal including Jerk Chicken and Blood Orange Crepe Suzettes.

Ah, and my plane is boarding. Back Monday night!

Comments

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

That's because you're south of the border.

...Today (the 18th) is a brand new holiday in Ontario. I haven't heard a bit of commercial crap for "Family Day."

Ontario also has an August Civic Holiday. Entirely uncommercial.

In general, it's not quite as bad for some of the holidays: Thanksgiving, for example, isn't part of the Christmas Pileup, being in October (y'know, when a harvest festival makes sense.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

Down here, Christmas comes pretty close to infringing on October -- at Disneyland they put up the tree and redecorate the day after Halloween.

Civic holidays sound like a good idea. I wonder if it evolved from the British bank holidays.

If I'm south of the border, does that mean I have to eat at *shudder* Taco Bell? Foodie God would not be pleased. There would be chalupas, but they would really awful ones.