OK, time to gripe again about holidays. Specifically, what the government does to them. For instance, today is NOT Veterans Day. But every bank and government office is closed. The feds said today, because its a friday. Heaven forbid thr holiday is inconveniently falling on a Saturday. What the hell!? I believe Armistice was 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month without any qualifiers saying its got to be a Friday. Same goes for Washington and Lincolns birthdays. When i was a kid we sometimes had midweek holidays because we celebrated the ACTUAL day they were born. How novel. Try telling your kid this year your hirthday is friday and then ignore his real birthday. Its just more bullshit from our leaders. Why bother with the pretense at all. Just make every God damn friday a holiday and skip the naming. We are headed that way anyhow. Why, for the love of god, can we not just keep the holiday on its day to honor its original purpose? Is that so difficult?
Emily had the day off. The school district celebrates Vets day on a whatever basis. She had wanted me to sty home and do things wih her. Well, its not a GD holiday. I went to work. Fortunately, most of the world is stupid and they took the day off. So my day was very slow. At least no calls in and no visitors. None. I always have alot of work to do no matter what. But, as usual, I could not tell you what I did. I can not remember anything. Except, Walker is having an ongoing argument with a surety. The surety wants incorrect financial statements prepared for a client to get his bond. And Walker likes correct financials. Unfortunately, thenonly solution required me to get involved and speak to the surety and try to calm her down. The woman is a bitch. Truly a bitch. We believe we have this solved. So I will not need to have a conversation with her again. This part of my day I remember. At the end of the day I grabbed three tax files. I managed to finish these three and bill them. The important part. Billing. This final act makes me feel the day was not a complete waste, at leastni earned some money.
Short drive home it seemed. Spoke to Marika for a few minutes, obviously I was in violation of the hands free law. She is doing well and she was having tri tip for dinner. I would have liked that too. I called Emily too and let her know what was up. Not much really.
We had a nice dinner, salad topped with the fried pork. Same as a few days back. It is very tasty. We also opened the free wine i talked about from a couple days back. Emily loved it. A nice chardonnay. I liked it but Im a red wine drinker. I believe my wife could drink it every day. She finished the bottle.
This brings us to now. We are doing dishes and putting crap away. Emily said something snarky about that because I am sitting and writing versus cleaning. To which I give a hearty “whatever”. I still get to go to bed and read.