It’s September 1st, folks! Time for the time of the Pumpkining! Did you miss it? – Because I did.
Also: STARFIELD is fun, and it’s going to get even more fun when they fix the stuttering problem and the modders come up with a UI that humans can use. It’s actually less buggy than you’d expect from a Bethesda game, to. They should still release the Creation Kit with all due speed.
Lastly: it’s going to be a beautiful weekend here. Light posting for Labor Day.
In honor of the holiday, I didn’t do any. Well, I did go grocery shopping, but that doesn’t really count. I gotta eat, right?
Kids got back to school tomorrow, you see. So it’s making sure that their supplies are all set up and I gotta get ’em laundered and they came back from visiting their grandfather today and it’s been a busy afternoon. Hopefully it’ll quiet down tonight, after they’re put to bed. Hopefully.
If not: see you tomorrow! Hope everybody had a good Labor Day. I had some very nice brie breaded and deep fried with a remarkably smooth cider today, so it wasn’t too bad. And I got a haircut! I was meaning to get one of those.
Wife’s taking the kids to go see Gramps, and I am going to decompress before we start up the school year next week (yeah, it’s kind of late). Honestly, first day of school can get pretty dang stressful, for both me and the kids; I’m kind of looking forward to maybe getting a six-pack tomorrow and perusing MY Netflix for a change. Or maybe Amazon Prime. Got some watching to binge.
So I’ll be around, but maybe lazy. What the heck. Labor Day, right?
Ours was… functional. The sudden brake problem in the car kind of complicated things; I went out to get a feel for how bad the problem was, backed up about a foot, hit the brakes, hit the brakes REALLY HARD, said “NOPE. NOPE NOPE NOPE,” put the car in forward again, slammed on the brakes, and told my wife I’d get it to the shop tomorrow. Which pretty much starts the timer on us having to go get a new car. Well… a new used car. Obviously.
Still, it was nice out this weekend. Always a plus.
I took the day off. Let my kids have the computer. I read a couple of books. It was a thing.
I have to wonder how much of it is due to us needing a holiday at about this point on the calendar. End of summer, and all that. Certainly it’s not doing the job that its creators thought that it’d be doing, and ain’t that a shame…
Oh, my. That is what we call beautiful.
Happy Labor Day!
— Governor Walker (@GovWalker) September 2, 2013
To the accompaniment of many, many people screaming in impotent rage. Which is as it should be.
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Trollin' RT @GovWalker: Happy Labor Day!
— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) September 2, 2013
It’s Labor Day Monday. I’m about to order a couple of pizzas, then take my kids out for Italian Ices afterward. Nobody do anything important this afternoon, OK?
They won’t tell you the party affiliation of Peter Franchot, Rick Meehan and Sen. James N. Mathias Jr. – but I will. Oh, yes, I will: Democrats, the lot of ’em!
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Eastern Shore and Western Maryland lawmakers joined Comptroller Peter Franchot on Thursday in calling for school to start after Labor Day.
The proposed change, hailed as a way to promote family time and extend the tourist season, would have a $74.3 million economic impact, the Bureau of Revenue Estimates said in a new report. School starts this year in most school systems around the state Aug. 26, a week before Labor Day.
Continue reading Attention, Maryland parents: the Democrats want to extend summer vacation!
