What are you doing this weekend?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I’m going to put on my Sunday best and go to Sears to pick out a garbage disposal to replace the one that puked all over the kitchen last night. Woo hoo!
Then I’m going to sit on the steps drinking iced tea while my boys do hours and hours of yard work. Heh.
Can they come to my house when they’re done and help me out?
🙂
Some of us may go to a funeral for someone my wife knows.
Some of us may go see Ice Age 2: The Meltdown.
We will most likely go see a friend of ours doing some amateur drama.
I don’t think I’m going to get the deck cleaned up and ready to put in our garden-such-as-it-is.
So many ways to slack off, so little time.
(still); would like to have this disaster area relatively organized by Monday afternoon so we can play the rest of next week with a clear conscience.
And have tickets to Sharks v. Dallas Stars on Sunday evening — hopefully they’ll actually win…
Writing, or at least beginning, two twenty-plus-page papers. One compares two topographical poems: Jonson’s “To Penshurst” and Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax.” The other is an examination of the evolution of the cynical war hero as protagonist, using the various twentieth-century wars as a framework; think Remarque’s Paul Baumer, Hemingway’s Frederic Henry, Heller’s Yossarian, etc. The first paper will be agony; the second will write itself.
Quiet weekend coming up, I hope. Helping curly move some stuff tomorrow morning, then pick up the asklets and it’s up to them.
Meanwhile, Booman, the site has passed 2 million visitors some time around noon today.
Drinking. Lots and lots of drinking…starting in about 2 hours.
Bad: Possibly buying a used car. My partner and I have gotten spoiled, being car-free for several years. But for various reasons, it’s become more-or-less necessary to burden ourselves again. What I wouldn’t give to resurrect the folks most responsible for steering the US into this infrastructure cul-de-sac just long enough to give ’em all boots in the butts.
Good: Seeing the Faith Quilts Project, probably Saturday evening.
Also good: Weather permitting, going on a hike on Sunday.
Oh, WOW!! Not my style of quilts – I’m more apt to reproduce an antique quilt as closely as I can in modern reproduction fabrics – but I’d love to see all the quilts in the show. I have three tops that need stretching and quilting plus heaven’s knows how many PIPs (Projects In Progress)
Saturday, I am going on a short 2 hour canoe trip with my Boy Scout Troop, clean off the deck around the pool, and do some spring gardening around the house. I will spend most of my weekend with my family (especially some quality romantic time with my wife) and just enjoy being with the family after spending the past four weekends doing Boy Scout Leader’s training!
We topped two million visitors today.
That’s awesome! Congratulations!!
Super awesome! My genealogy site just passed 1.5 million after 6 years, and genealogy is supposed to be the 2nd most popular subject on the web.
What am I doing this weekend? Transcribing more data for the site, tending to Mom, scratching kitty ears, knitting for charity and maybe myself (ok, it’s lace knitting, the yarn looks like thread, I’m working up my courage).
I will be preparing for the arrival of my son, DiL and two grandsons. On Monday afternoon, I’ll drive 45 miles to the nearest train station to pick them up. The train was my idea after reading one of the New Environmentalism diaries. They went to DC first to visit with some friends from when they lived in Alexandria and were going to rent a car to drive down to coastal NC where I live. I said, take the train instead! And it turned out to be cheaper all around for them to do so.
Because we’re not likely to get back to my house much before dinner time, I will be cooking on Sunday. I’m making a spinach quiche (with spinach from my garden!), baby carrots steamed with dill and a big tossed salad. For dessert, I’m making chocolate lava cakes that will be zapped hot, topped with whipped cream, a cherry and drizzled with cherry juice.
I’d ask to come to dinner, but if you have spinach from your garden already, you’re not in my planting zone. {g}
Attending a sushi party for a Buddhist friend leaving for Arizona.
Diving into those student short stories.
I have to go down to Washington D.C. to visit my sister in law, who frowns on drunken debauchery. My traveling companion is my wife, who is still mad at me for last weekend’s drunken debauchery. I forsee a lot of bottled water in my near future. Sigh.
What’s a little drunken debauchery among friends? Buy your wife something she likes and let her indulge too!
As for me, I’m taking dreaded report writing home again this weekend, so there goes my Saturday. It’s not supposed to be that nice out Sat. anyway, but I have a date with a rake, lawn bags and gardening shears on Sunday. I have to clean up my portion of the boulder garden before more stuff starts coming up through the left over leaves and assorted detritus that blew in over the winter. But, it has to be done before we can get the spring planting started!
And to reward myself, I’m going to watch a few episodes of Six Feet Under 5th season, which I just got earlier this week.