h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I lost my taste for most years ago. But I do enjoy a dry white with dinner.

ooohhhh dry is the best

Too bad no one told my father-in-law that. For our wedding, he bought quite a quantity that he was told was good. Because it had a French name. It had to be atleast a 7 or 8 !!! Like drinking sugared grape-juice. And all the toasts were done with it.

I guess just another trial of marrying, eh?

*shivers*

I*t WAS the ultimate test in how polite I, and my family, can be.

Something must have gone right, ... we celebrate our 18th in September. And by a weird confluence of circumstances, on the same date, my girl celebrates her 2nd.

awwwww thats nice

And on the idea of re-using calendrical dates ...

April 2nd, '81, I married my first wife. During the reception, my new mother-in-law threw a tantrum, because no one acknowledged it was also her 25th anniversary. Well, she was such a b*tch, she had driven her hubby away more than a decade earlier. She is now long-time 'interred', having met her maker. And that first wife is on her 3rd marriage.

One more thing happened the night of April 2nd, '81 ... A very little boy was born. And now all 5' 1.25" of him is my son-in-law !!!

thats nice

I call it a haunting coincidence.

How's this new day going for ya?

quite well thanks

you?

Again, I've just arrived at w*rk. But it's a short day, having booked the afternoon off for home-stuff. And then a 3-day week-end. Whooo-hooo !!!

Mind you, a lot of that time will be spent making messes, noise and other fun stuff. With POWER TOOLS !!!

do you normally have 3 day weekends it is this a speical day over there?

Monday is what you folks would call a "bank holiday".

July 1st is the birthday of our country. And the first Monday of September is "Labour Day". So to provide a bit of a break to the long, hot summer, most of the provinces also grant the first Monday of August as a 'civic' holiday. Hey, I don't care as to the why's, ... I'll happily take a paid day off.

ahhh so it's a civic day

Or for folks like me, an unpaid labour day as a carpenter. But hey, ultimately I am the one gaining this time, instead of a friend or neighbor.

Any social or family plans for your week-end?

nope, hubby will be working,

Awww, 'tis a shame. Have I asked what the well-named gentleman does professionally?

He's a welder

I've tried my hand at that, to a very limited degree. I now know my talents are far more suited to soldering ... of either electronics or copper water pipes.

I just glanced at the BBC News and it looks like a few more people have been picked up by the constabulary. I do wish them every success, trying to round up and close down atleast that "cell".

For all the bad things that are said about the police, they do at least manage to get some things right