Roving holidays

Today is a company holiday. We get one roving holiday a year that the company tacks on to either Christmas, New Years, or the 4th, and this year the 4th won out. I like days off that don't coincide with the usual holidays. Traffic and store volumes are at normal workday levels, that undercurrent of gotta-get-there-yesterday stress is gone, and I feel like I'm getting away with something because most other folks are at work.

You folks who get time off for MLK or Presidents or Columbus Day--you'll get your own back soon enough.

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Roving holidays

Today is a company holiday. We get one roving holiday a year that the company tacks on to either Christmas, New Years, or the 4th, and this year the 4th won out. I like days off that don't coincide with the usual holidays. Traffic and store volumes are at normal workday levels, that undercurrent of gotta-get-there-yesterday stress is gone, and I feel like I'm getting away with something because most other folks are at work.

You folks who get time off for MLK or Presidents or Columbus Day--you'll get your own back soon enough.

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Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Mission

By Associated Press
Published July 5, 2005, 2:37 PM CDT

MOSCOW -- NASA's mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust -- it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer.

Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe," the newspaper Izvestia reported Tuesday. A Moscow court has postponed hearings on the case until late July, the paper said.

(ME--Ms Bai is seeking damages totaling $300 million for "pain and suffering". The rest of the story here, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/sns-ap-russia-comet-case,1,3489942.story?coll=chi-entertainment-front

--although since it's the Trib, registration is required...although I daresay the story is floating around elsewhere...assuming NASA hasn't whacked it with a probe.)

Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Mission

By Associated Press
Published July 5, 2005, 2:37 PM CDT

MOSCOW -- NASA's mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust -- it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer.

Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe," the newspaper Izvestia reported Tuesday. A Moscow court has postponed hearings on the case until late July, the paper said.

(ME--Ms Bai is seeking damages totaling $300 million for "pain and suffering". The rest of the story here, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/sns-ap-russia-comet-case,1,3489942.story?coll=chi-entertainment-front

--although since it's the Trib, registration is required...although I daresay the story is floating around elsewhere...assuming NASA hasn't whacked it with a probe.)