stream of semconsciousness

[fox]

Proposition: the day before Thanksgiving is the single most useless workday on the calendar in the United States. (I think the Eves are probably right behind it, followed by any day that is normally a federal holiday, followed by the Friday or Monday before or after a long weekend; but the fourth Wednesday in November is just nonsense.) (I guess this hierarchy assumes that Thanksgiving is a two-day holiday, which now that I think about it is a biggish assumption, so okay, the Wednesday and Friday surrounding Thanksgiving are tied. If the tie must be broken, I'm going to say Wednesday has a very slight edge.)

I am at work this morning. Will get some minimal amount of work done; will call the yarn shop, when they open, and ask if it's okay to stop in and wind [mumble] (six) balls before I hit the road; will stop at the post office across the street from them and send College Roommate K the play I got her in New York; will also find an ATM and deposit two of the three checks people have written me recently (not yours, sanj, no worries); may, depending on the time, stop home and see if UPS has delivered my package which contains a much warmer winter coat than the one I'm wearing, which, given that it's 40 degrees here today, is not such a big deal, except that hi, headed to Cleveland. Sigh. (Lands End said it shipped on Friday and should take 2-3 business days, the lying liars. UPS says it shipped on Monday, so it's hardly surprising it wasn't delivered yesterday.)

Hey, did you guys know today was going to be payday? Awesome.

Here, have my safely-scribbled notes taken on the drive from Minneapolis to Rice Lake two weekends ago (with interpretations, as it turns out):

Lindström in MN - meat raffle [made a note of this because RS at curling reported that there was a meat raffle when she was at club nationals in St Paul a couple of years ago; the fact that I passed a place advertising a genuine meat raffle corroborates her story ;-)]

all w/ sister cities in Sweden. Fjords, basically. [no fooling, every place I passed through (pop. 763) had a sister city in Sweden. Every single one. This was the Lakes Region of Minnesota, and I concluded that all these people were pining for the fjords -- but not in the Monty Python sense, I mean, they were all very much alive.]

I like how they always say the slides can be used as life rafts except over the wings -- where I guess you're on your own. [a note left over from a thought I had on the plane.]

K: is this? Taylor Falls pop 1010. [several years ago we all went to visit College Roommate K in Minneapolis, and one day we drove over the border into Wisconsin. the note was to ask if Taylor Falls was where we went, but I later decided it couldn't possibly have been, so I didn't ask her.]

Times like this I wish I had someone with me. To read more of the signs, if nothing else. Ooh! Hills. [the landscape changed at the state line. I was very pleased.]

US Hwy goes through it, therefore not middle of nowhere. BUT STILL. [that one kind of speaks for itself, no?]

Work. Yes. And package tracking. Several hours before the long drive begins.

Comments

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

I agree. The more so in a library at a college not holding classes due to the imminent holiday, but one way or another I'm sure it's true all over.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

What's so odd about a meat raffle?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen one outside of the central time zone?

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

That doesn't make it odd. Just... regional.

And why doesn't the rest of the world hold meat raffles?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

I actually never said it was odd. Just unfamiliar. :-)