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The “working” dogs are at it again:

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I couldn’t use the flash; that would have been mean.

What are y’all up to this holiday weekend? It’s BBQ and baseball as usual for us this weekend, but on Tuesday, hubby and I are actually going on vacation for the first time in years. Seal Team Six has agreed to watch the kid, dogs and chickens.

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  1. 1.

    David Koch

    Obambi’s speech was a complete failure.

    Not once did he address whether Bradley Manning should be the Grand Marshall at the upcoming San Francisco gay parade.

    Not once!

  2. 2.

    JPL

    First Cole goes Galt and now you announce vacation plans. What do expect us to do?

  3. 3.

    c u n d gulag

    On Memorial Day Monday, the Yankees are playing the Mets.
    It’s a big, inter-city rivalry.

    Is the game on in the afternoon, when the whole family can watch it?
    HELL NO!!!
    The @$$hole Lord’s of Baseball (TV channels) have determined that 7:05 is a great time to start a holiday Baseball game, even though school is still in session, and the kids have to go there on Tuesday.

    I think I’ve seen maybe a handful of World Series games over the past 10 years – I just can’t stay up that late anymore, even though I’ve been unemployed for the last 3 years.
    And don’t get me started on the NBA Championship games, which begin at 9!!!

    It’s no wonder the NFL rules. Because most of their games are in the early or late afternoon on the East Coast. And the Super Bowl starts around 6:30 here.

    Of course, none of this matters if you don’t live in the Eastern Time Zone.

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    @JPL: We’ll, I don’t plan on going off the grid altogether (unless I can’t get a proper signal in my beach bungalow). I may have MORE time to waste online since I am pigmentationally constrained from joining my husband in fishing all day long…

  8. 8.

    TooManyJens

    My daughter woke us up half an hour before her alarm this morning because she’s so excited about her trip to Arizona. It’s sweet, but OMG, I’m so tired.

  10. 10.

    Linda Featheringill

    @Betty Cracker:

    I am pigmentationally constrained from joining my husband in fishing all day long

    And you spontaneously burst into flame when in the direct sunlight. I understand.

  11. 11.

    Todd

    @Baud:

    White women can’t fish.

    They do seem to have problems putting worms on hooks, don’t they?

  16. 16.

    Suffern ACE

    I’m heading to the MD, PA, WV region for a baby shower. More out of spite than a strong conviction or curiosity.

  20. 20.

    David Koch

    @Baud: well, Ovaltine’s window isn’t so bad, it has a decent chocolate taste, especial with mini-marshmallows

  21. 21.

    Todd

    @Betty Cracker:

    I am a pale, freckly thing who can get a sunburn in a bank vault.

    That’s why they make big floppy hats and long sleeved rash guards.

  24. 24.

    J.

    More realistic dog groupings: The Drooling Group, The Farting Group, The Will Chase Anything Group, The Begging Group, The Working for Your Affection Group…

  25. 25.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    I’m spending the weekend getting ready to leave the country for a couple of weeks. Need a haircut and a few travel things. Gotta get ahead of the yard work so it doesn’t completely get out of hand when I turn my back on it.
    Weather’s supposed to be nice, so maybe we’ll take Doglius Maximus out to the park.

  27. 27.

    WereBear

    Have a good time!

    Fishing is not a hang-out activity anyway. You are either there to fish, or you become bored out of your skull.

  28. 28.

    c u n d gulag

    @Ultraviolet Thunder:
    Uhm…
    If you’re leaving, why the hell are you coming back? :-)
    I’d leave this too-large-to-be-an-asylum country in a nanosecond, if another country would let me stay there.

  29. 29.

    the Conster

    I just finished watching The Loving Story, about Loving v. Virginia. Remember when the Supreme Court did the right thing unanimously? Good times.

  30. 30.

    Soonergrunt

    Sleeping in, unpacking and moving in, going to go to the shelter where they took care of my boy and drop off some cell phone chargers, and going to open a bottle of champagne that we bought to celebrate buying the house, and then a bottle or three of something else.

    ETA–(what does that mean, anyway?) The President will be here on Sunday. There will not be an opportunity to see or meet him, as I understand.

  36. 36.

    ellie

    I’m going camping in Utah. The hubby and I moved to CO last year and haven’t gone anywhere. Now, instead of driving two days from Ohio, we can drive 5 hours down I-70! I am so excited!

    We aren’t staying the whole weekend. We have new Arrested Developments to watch.

  37. 37.

    Shakezula

    Supposed to be cool this weekend because we’re having the oddest damn spring in memory. Not that I am complaining because it could easily be 90 degrees with matching humidity. Lots of people have left town but tourists might make up for the slack.
    Maybe we’ll take the latest vehicular acquisition out for a long spin. Or determine if the inflatable kayak we bought used actually floats with people in it.

  40. 40.

    Elizabelle

    @J.:

    The Couchbound, the Meal Stealers, the Weave your own rug from the dropped hair breeds …

    Lovely dogs, all.

  44. 44.

    Mnemosyne

    I got a Groupon to a local hotel, so we’re going one city over for our “vacation.” Which sounds a little silly but, hey, two nights in a deluxe room at a nice hotel in Pasadena (with a heated pool!). With no cats. And someone else to straighten it up and make the bed.

  45. 45.

    dexwood.

    I’ll spend six hours Saturday hawking my folk art at the local Growers’ Market (my 12th year), but mostly I plan to do little else but read, watch movies, and drink IPA as I continue to recover from a nasty car wreck eight days ago. Damn red light runners! And I mean a light that was seriously red before I entered the intersection.

  46. 46.

    IowaOldLady

    I’m going to WisCon, a feminist science fiction convention. I’m making Mr IOL go too.

  47. 47.

    Yatsuno

    Yay first furlough day! Taking advantage by getting out of town until Monday night. FY Repubs, I’d rather have the money.

  49. 49.

    Redshirt

    @Betty Cracker: Attention pale white folks! Here’s some cool SPF 50+ clothing, here: Coolibar

    As a skin cancer person, I’ve bought a lot from them, and love everything. Especially the light weight pullovers that are still SPF 50.

    As for this Memorial Day weekend, I am in year 2 of the End of the PSYCHOBILLY FREAKOUT WEEKEND. For 14 years I threw a party this weekend, but that ended last year because everyone is old, or has kids, or moved, or is just stupid and boring. So no more bacchanalia.

    But this weekend in Maine, it’s a good thing! What a miserable forecast!

  51. 51.

    NickT

    Nice bit of Bolshevizing from Krgthulhu here:

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/obamacare-will-be-a-debacle-for-republicans/

    …the preliminary numbers for CA are in — and they’re looking very good, with costs coming in below expectations. At this point, it looks as if this thing is indeed going to work.
    And think about the political dynamics. Because the Supreme Court decided to let states opt out of the Medicaid expansion, some states — notably Texas — will have a pretty dysfunctional version of Obamacare in 2014, although even those systems will provide significant benefits to many people. Still, the whole political calculus was supposed to be that Republicans in red states could point to the horrors of Obamacare and ride them to political victory. Instead, it looks as if we’re going to see blue-state residents reaping the benefits of a functional health care system, while red-state residents are denied many of those benefits, for what looks like no better reason than mean-spirited spite — because what’s going on is, indeed, mean-spirited spite.
    Predictions that Obamacare will be a big political issue are probably right — but not in the way gleeful conservatives imagined.

  52. 52.

    gogol's wife

    Tomorrow I’ll be at receptions all afternoon. It would be nice if it were 70 and partly cloudy as originally forecast, rather than 51 and rainy. Then on Sunday I get to sit outside wearing a polyester-and-velvet robe for 3+ hours listening to 785 names being called. Monday I will be collapsing.

  53. 53.

    DFH no.6

    @Betty Cracker:
    I am a pale, freckly thing who can get a sunburn in a bank vault.

    So’s my darling wife of lo these many decades (redhead of Irish/Polish descent).

    Which is why dragging her here to the Valley of the Sun (Sheriff Joe Arpaio County) 32 years ago was a dastardly deed on my part for which the karmic payback will be a bitch, no doubt.

    Like the rest of my family (German/Irish descent) I somehow tan just fine myself (right now I’m actually about the same shade as my dulce y bella daughter-in-law from Peru).

    My wife only does the floppy-hat thing when we’re at Coachella, but that’s because there is no other way she could spend 3 long April afternoons outside in Indio (otherwise she avoids much sun exposure here at home).

    Spending this long weekend helping my 3 rescue pups babysit my son’s large (110#) and rambunctiouos Black Lab/Great Dane (probably) mix while my son begins recovery from knee surgery. And watching baseball (my Cleveland Tribe is doing well — for now). And bbq-ing and swimming in the backyard pool (first time in the pool this year).

  55. 55.

    ruemara

    I got a pass to the Sacramento Music Festival. Heading in today to take some pics.————————————————————————————————————— whoops, meds kicked in and I feel asleep mid type.

  56. 56.

    Betty Cracker

    @DFH no.6: My husband is mostly of Polish descent with a dash of Italian, but he lucked out and got the Mediterranean sun durability. My ethic background is Irish, English and Scandinavian, so I pretty much glow in the dark. Luckily for our kiddo, she got her dad’s complexion.

  57. 57.

    p.a.

    Philly for lacrosse. Weather meh. No rooting interest (Tiffany, 8 years in and not 1 decent f/o man recruited!), would like to pull for Denver but Tierney is the biggest whining SoB I have ever seen. The assistants coach, he works the refs the whole game.

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