Yeah, I know this week's MMM is late, but I have a good reason. Sort of. You see it was a three-day weekend here in 'Murkka, so I didn't have to don my shackles and trudge down the salt mine. So yesterday was kind of like a 'Second-Sunday', you know, like the 'Second Breakfast' the hobbits talk about in LOTR (sorry for the nerd reference, I realize I may have just accidentally outed myself).
Unfortunately that means today becomes 'Double-Monday'. The work doesn't evaporate simply because you're fortunate enough to get an extra day off, it is still there, plus all of Tuesday's work when you get back to the cube farm. Yay.
To make matters worse, right on cue for the three-day weekend, the weather was complete shit. Two of the three days were cold, overcast, rainy and miserable, just like a summer holiday in Wales, and the third day was so blisteringly hot that I didn't actually need to use the gas burners on the grill to cook the hotdogs and burgers.
As far as the Mutterings go I really don't have much for you. Sarah Palin made the news for some reason or other, something about a bus tour I think. Her female competitor from Minnesota, Michele Bachmann, announced she is definitely getting in the presidential race, instantly upping the Bat-Shit Crazy quotient from "mildly disturbed" to "mental"...stay tuned...the needle on that scale could go as high as "completely out of their tiny fucking minds" if Caribou Barbie enters the race.
In the sporting world an unemployed Brit won the Indy 500 as the poor bugger that was in the lead of the race managed to stuff his car into the wall within view of the chequered flag on the final lap...
In cricket, England shocked their Sri Lankan opponents as they managed to snatch an improbable innings and 14 run-victory from the jaws of a rain-delayed draw, in one of the most remarkable test matches I have ever watched. If you're American, just ignore that last sentence, it won't ever make sense to you...
And in football Barcelona travelled all the way to London to kick a team from Manchester repeatedly in the balls. Stunningly, and much to my dismay, the Manchester United manager was magnanimous and even gracious in defeat. I was hoping for some more world-class whingeing from the gum-chewing sourpuss, but alas it wasn't to be...
So all in all the weekend was an assortment of 'meh' with a sprinkling of 'whatever'...in other words, the perfect launch into the work week...
Have fun gang!
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