Hazy hot and humid, oh joy.

[lagilman]

We have established that I am not a Summer Person, right?  If I wanted to live in a sauna I would have relocated south of DC?  Right.  Moving on.

Suggested new points of order, based on conversations over the weekend:

1. Before offering advice in response to a post or comment, first consider: is the speaker over the age of 25? Are they in possession of a functional, not to say trained mind? Might they probably have already considered possible solutions to their issue before mentioning it? If the answer is yes, rethink offering your advice.

(the above is negated if you are their mother, father, or agent)

2. If you see a problem forming in a social setting, cut it off at the knees (either by intervention or deflection) before it becomes an actual problem. Defusing a bomb should be more highly valued than trying to pick up the shrapnel after the fact.

3. Life's too short, grim, and otherwise often unpleasant not to take joy in the small, silly things. Don't let your "dignity" get in the way of laughter. Or, as the late, great Dr Major Sydney Freedman twice said, "Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice."

In other news, Pandora goes back to the vet (hopefully this week) for X-rays.  I really don't have the emotional bandwidth to talk about that further, right now.

This week is Canada Day (Happy Canada Day, Canadians!) and Independence Day.  I'm hauling out of the city for the first time in years, and so will miss the NYC fireworks.  The lure of ocean air will make up for that, though, I suspect.

And then up to the Boston area for a long weekend.  I'm looking forward to that, too.

How are you spending your national holiday, if your nation-of-choice is celebrating one this week?

Comments

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

How are you spending your national holiday?

Apparently sleeping in is not one of the ways. (Though 6:30 felt decadent compared to my normal 5:00.)

Hopefully, I'll be having breakfast with a friend. There will be fireworks watching from my balcony. Mainly, not going to the office. That's a definite. :-)

[sunnyd-lite.livejournal.com]

I'm meeting up with friends and then going to the launch party for the Captain Canuck webseries, a national hero gets ANIMATED!

Then fireworks. Lots n lots of fireworks!

Happy National Holiday week!

[blazedglory.livejournal.com]

Ah, Sydney! Now I miss him.

There'll be barbecue and family on Thursday. No fireworks, unless my youngest cousin asks for sparklers. Also the annual reading of the Declaration by my father.

Enjoy your trip!

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

I'll be spending the national holiday on PDX's waterfront with about 20,000 other folks, listening to blues and bluesy rock music. Not going to Sunday when Robert Plant plays because sheesh, that's a separate and expensive ticket, but John Hiatt, North Mississippi All Stars and a horde of other fantastic blues men and women? Oh yeah.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

cut it off at the kees (either by intervention or deflection)

that sounds painful, most folks hide their kees.

[lagilman]

You couldn't just say "pssst, you've got a typo?"

*goes to fix*

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

sometimes the typos are the best thing evah! (but if it happens again, I will do it your way)

[gorgeousgary]

We haven't quite decided what we are doing on the 4th yet. There will be fireworks involved, but we're not joining the other quarter-million lunatics crowding onto the U.S. Capitol grounds like we usually do. I need a little catch-up and recharge time before heading up the road to the Discworld con. So we'll forgo the Mall festivities, go out for a casual dinner, and hit one of the smaller local celebrations.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I intend to celebrate the 4th by sucking up All The Airconditioning.