Easter Monday is the weirdest of holidays. A civic holiday in lieu of a religious holiday. No other religious holiday recognized in law is fixed to a day of the week so, appropriately for my present purposes, we still get the Monday off.
I have failed in my past Easter Monday plans. Since 2005, I have failed to learn more about Boogaloo music. Given two years since that thought, I could have become something of an amateur expert. So too, however, went my adult novice homeschooling in Arabic and Dutch years earlier and I have come to expect these short comings of mine. But I have also been a man of action. In 2004, I was on the Wolfe Island Ferry on Easter Monday. In 2006, I bought a banjo as it was the day before Happy Me Day! Because I needed a banjo. What are the things I need ten days before the 2007 version of HMD?
1. A trombone mouthpieceThat is not too bad. And just to fill out the calendar, this blog started almost four years ago, on a day which was four days after Easter Monday 2003.
2. a newly shingled roof by the end of the summer
3. a garden shovel
4. passports by the end of the year
5. shotputs
Today I will brew. I will do laundry and dishes and scrub here and there first but in the afternoon I shall brew...unless I nap.
Comments
Gordo - April 9, 2007 11:02 AM
#1 would be easy for me ... My Dad is soon-to-be-retired principal trombone in the Kingston Symphony. :-)
I could whinge about Queen's not giving us the day, but so many people take it off, it winds up being a very productive day most years.
Alan - April 9, 2007 11:09 AM
Does your Dad trade mouthpieces for beer? I have only found them priced around a hundred bucks and everyone knows I can get three shot puts for that.
gorthos - April 9, 2007 11:51 AM
My plans include buying a set of garden clippers, groceries (I hope they are open), sprayingout the eavestroughs with my new brass anc hrome EVESTROUGH SPRAYER, Pier One for the spousal unit, ripping out the pump and liner and such from the pond in the backpatio and turing it into something more useful (a firepit) as we are not the "bubbling fru fru pond" type of persons.. oh and I better run 5 km since I took the last thee days off and feel guilt after all the crap our families meade me eat this weekend.
Is it better to have a 4 day weekend of two foud day workweeks.. usually it is the latter but this year I was happy to be off.. must be the house.
gorthos - April 9, 2007 11:52 AM
Egad.. I am appalled at my typing.. That is it.. I resolve to be more careful mit der POST button..
Gordo - April 9, 2007 12:20 PM
I have no idea, Alan. I'll have to ask him.
Gorthos, perhaps you could comment on the irony of an atheist taking advantage of a religious holiday?
gr - April 9, 2007 1:44 PM
Wow, the things we learn! Gordo, never heard you say that about your dad. Shotputs, Alan? And yeah, Gorthos, shouldn't you be at work just for the principle of the thing?
Gordo - April 9, 2007 2:44 PM
Dad's been playing with the KSO since November 1957. In Kingston, this is a very part-time gig. He's a retired high-school music teacher and has decided that he just doesn't have the energy to devote to the orchestra's rehearsal and playing schedule any more. He still plays off and in in three jazz and swing bands, though. :-) He wanted to run away to New Orleans as a kid. ;-)
gorthos - April 9, 2007 8:37 PM
Atheist?? What you talkin about wilis.. ?
I am a fervent worshiper of Cthulhu and Crom as the mood fits me.
Gordo - April 9, 2007 8:53 PM
Both of whom have centuries-old ties to Easter. I forgot.
gorthos - April 10, 2007 12:16 AM
Now Gordo, does one see all stores open at Xmas manned by persons of Jewish, Hindu and Muslim faiths? And today isn't a religious holiday anyways hence all eth stores being open and such..