Today we experience an event so rare it occurs only once per annum. This year, Cinco de Mayo happens on May 5th. Why this isn’t a Monday holiday is beyond me, and I look forward to our future Hispanic overlords turning it into one once they’re in the majority. I’ve mentioned before that any excuse for a day off is fine by me, but if we have to ditch another holiday to make room, might I suggest Columbus Day? I mean, by October we’ve just had Labor Day and are looking forward to Veterans’ Day and then Thanksgiving. But right now we’ve haven’t had a holiday since February and it’s still a long way ’til Memorial Day. Plus, by all accounts, Columbus was a dick.

Here’s a question for you dog owners out there. If you were to leave a big-ass block of cheese sitting out – uncovered – on the kitchen counter and then leave the house, would be be surprised if if one of your more-or-less counter-height dogs absconded with said block of cheese? No? Me neither.

I never want to hear anybody diss the Postal Service again. I ordered something that’s supposed to arrive today (a pair of mechanical pencils – yeah, that’s how exciting I am), and have been following the always extensive USPS tracking. My package left Rochester at 06:26 this morning, and arrives at the PO in my town at 06:40. By my reckoning, it traveled at roughly 342 mph on that leg of the journey. Pretty impressive (even if it did take another 52 minutes to get through sorting).

Despite the holiday (and the new pencils), today is shaping up to be a difficult day for me. First, they closed my on-ramp for paving this morning (WTF, don’t they know it’s a holiday?), forcing me to detour around. This added, like, 5-7 minutes to my morning commute. Such an inconvenience!

Then when I finally did get to work, I realized that I forgot my water bottle (I had that nagging feeling I forgot something when I was leaving – now I know why my backpack felt so light). How I’ll make it through the day w/o water is beyond me. I might have to go to the store to get some, ‘cuz I’ve become way too hoity-toity to drink water fountain water.

Plus it turns out I have the stupid on-call duty this week AND it’s Stupid Meeting Week, so I have to worry about going to that on Wednesday.

Sucks.