It’s finally Friday, and there’s a big weekend coming up with college graduation ceremonies taking place all over. If you’re the parent of a graduating senior who’ll soon be heading back home to seek gainful employment, you have my sympathy. I only have two words of advice to offer: “tough love”. You can give them about a week of sleeping in, and then I suggest you get their asses up and out of bed at the crack of dawn and have them hit the streets. And don’t fall for any of this “I’m applying online” bullshit, either. You know they’re just updating their facebook pages. Get ’em out there pounding the pavement, and tell them to remember: there are no small jobs, only small people. Also, there is no free room and board after the Fourth of July.

The NCAA lacrosse playoffs begin (or continue) for Divisions I, II, and III this weekend, too. Onondaga Community College has already taken the Junior College national championship (second in a row, and fourth in five years), and we’re hoping that the other local schools – defending National Champs Cortland in Div III, last year’s runner-up, Lemoyne in Div II, and of course SU, who is looking for a three-peat in Div I, can give CNY a sweep. Hopefully they can all make it to Memorial Day weekend.

Today, the space shuttle Discovery is slated to lift off at 2:20 PM EDT. There are only two more shuttle missions scheduled after this one, and then, well, we’ll have to rely on, like, 50-yr old Russian technology to get us back and forth to the ISS. While I realize that it isn’t easy to justify the money to continue the space program in light of all the other shit that needs to get fixed in this country (or on this planet), I think maybe we could divert a few billion of the bucks currently spent on wars and destroying things over to NASA. But what do I know?

It also looks to be a busy weekend for trying to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, with 4 new schemes set to be tried, including putting on a “top hat” and shoving a bunch of shit into the pipe to clog it (which sounds like something I’d have come up with).

Hey, anybody tried duct tape yet?

Have a good one!