Weekend!

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Holy cow, is tomorrow Friday already?

Indeed it is.

Work this week has been a double handful of crazy. The first half was full speed ahead, all engines, until time came for the people next in line… who then told us, yeah, we don’t need that yet. We don’t need it until next week. Thanks. So the stuff that I was originally supposed to have done by COB on Friday was done by COB on (late) Wednesday just in time to be told “oh, don’t freak out about it or anything, we’re back to the original plan”.

Sigh.

At least that meant that the next few days were somewhat closer to normal… which is good because this weekend is close to packed. We’ve got SUMMERSLAM! on Sunday night, gaming on Saturday night, which leaves Friday night for laundry. Sprinkled in and around all of those are errands, errands, errands and chores, chores, chores.

So… what’s on your docket?

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  2. Tonight is open with the wife out at an event. I’m trying to decide it I want to knock out The Expendables. I’m leaning more towards staying home with the DVR and cleaning my guns in anticipation of hunting season.

    Tomorrow is the Kentucky State Fair. Highlight of the summer. I am going to eat things like Pork-butt-on-a-stick and grilled corn-on-the-cob and basically try to make myself sick. We’ll ooh and ahh over blue ribbon apple pies and enormous pumpkins and generally have a blast.

    Tomorrow night is Ronda Rousey vs. Sarah Kaufman on Showtime. Should be a good fight.

    Sunday I am going to try and catch ParaNorman with my youngest daughter.

    • Yes! The State Fair!

      I think that Maribou and I decided, starting last year, that there’s nothing you can do at the fair at 2PM that you can’t do at 6:45PM and so we’ve started going in the middle of the week after work, when it isn’t so gol-danged *HOT*.

      • We tried that once but there just wasn’t enough time. I need a minimum of 5 hours to do the state fair proper. When I was a kid it was a 12-hour event. My family REALLY liked the state fair.

    • We’ve our fair this weekend as well. Tomorrow night, Mrs. Likko and I will meet up with another couple to see Joan Jett and Eddie Money. Debating whether I will return Tuesday to see Colbie Callait and some indie guy, but I don’t think I can handle that many deep fried hot dogs for dinner in so short a time, or stay out that late on a work night.

      • Burt,
        If I recall correctly, you mentioned living in or near SCV. Are you going to the Antelope Valley Fair? I have many fond childhood and teenage memories of that fair.

        • That’s right. The fairgrounds have been moved from their old location on the east side to a new and rather less charming location west of the freeway on the north side of Avenue H. But the grandstands are huge.

      • Joan Jett, Eddie Money, Journey and Pat Benatar! All of us ’80s teens are jealous.

        • What’s sad is I still think of those acts as stadium bands. God I’m getting old.

        • As long as one side of his mouth still works, he needs to keep putting them out.

  3. What’s a state fair? Is that part of the Inequality Symposium?

    Pottery Barn to pick out drapes tonight. Brooklyn Brewery (!!!) tomorrow. Hopefully the water park for an early birthday celebration Sunday. PatheticSox/Yanks all weekend.

    • “What’s a state fair? ”

      Ahhhh……my heart. I’m hoping that’s sarcasm.

      • I’ve heard of them. I used to go to the Meadowlands Fair which was a traveling deal with rides and games. I’ve been to a Renaissance Fair. But a state fair? I don’t think NJ has a fair.

          • Hee. I was typing while you were hitting Submit, James. Glad to know I’m not the only addict in the crowd :D.

          • Ohhhh… Sussex County? We don’t go to Sussex County. We. Don’t. Go. To. Sussex. County. That is the south, man!

            (Quick Google)

            Hm. Sussex County appears to actualky be north of Hometown, NJ. And that is where the water park is. But it doesn’t have skyscrapers or highways! What am I, a farmer?

          • Central Jersey? F THAT!

            I grew up in northeast NJ, just outside northern Manhattan. I’ve moved about 30 miles north now into NY State.

          • County fairs are one of the two greatest cultural inventions in history, the other being funnel cake which, as it happens, is always served at county fairs! Also, rodeos.

            I grew up in the country, and when I was a kid a lot of my friends had animals competing at the fair (pigs, cows, horses, sheep, goats, chickens, even donkeys), so the fairs were big social events for me. A typical day at the fair: go say hi to friends in the giant barn/stable thingy, ride some incredibly unsafe rides, talk to friends in the barn/stable thingy, eat some funnel cake and corn dogs, ride some more incredibly unsafe rides, watch friend’s 6-month old calf win 8th place in the Holstein dairy calf competition, eat more funnel cake, listen to some bad country music by aspiring songwriter (read: Shoney’s server) who couldn’t get a gig at the Davidson County Fair, eat one more corn dog, go home. Just try to think of a more amazing day than that, I dare you.

          • Zazzy loves funnel cake. Zazzy loves ANYTHING that involves carbohydrates, powdered sugar, and/or frying.

            Zazzy hates crowds. And people in general. And performance people specifically. We joke that she has agoraphobia. Well, she jokes; I’m serious. She is also weary of the following population subgroups: mountain people; country people; city people; people who wear costumes on days that don’t end in “-alloween”; and though not yet confirmed, I’m confident to put fair people on that list. She also has the heat and sun endurance of butter.

            The question is, can that first paragraph overwhelm the second and get us to the fair? My hunch is no, but I do like a challenge.

            If I go to a fair and it ends in divorce, all of you have to marry me. Deal?

          • I’ve never heard of anyone hating mountain people. Fearing them, maybe, but not hating them, because you have to get your moonshine somewhere, right? (In 2012, what they’re bootlegging ain’t moonshine, of course, but let’s call it that.) F

            Anyway, I can give you the URL of a Russian Mail Order Bride service, just in case. If you’ve got your head set on keeping Zazzy, though, I recommend going to the fair yourself. That way you keep your spouse and hey, more funnel cake for you!

          • Ya hafta know mountain people to hate ’em, Chris.
            After you get shot at for getting lost, and get locked up in jail for
            having some fun in town… (watching nobody stop the incest going on)…

            I know someone who’d certainly be justified in hatin’ them.

            not that he does.

          • My undergraduate institution had special scholarships for people from Appalachia, so I went to school with a lot of Mountain people from Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, and Eastern PA. Plus, before I turned 21, we used to drive to Huntington because the bars were 18 and up there. And before college, I spent much of my time in the summer rafting, tubing, and canoeing the rivers of East Tennessee. I’ve known a lot of mountain people. I never ended up in jail because of them, but I have been scared shitless by them.

            True story, one of my friends back then was shot in the bum by her own father, when she was 14, because he learned she was pregnant. Mountain people.

          • then there’s drunk mountain people on the fourth of july, blowing their own asses off with fireworks… and then insisting they’re fine.

            Not the best sort of folks ever, but far from the worst.

          • We joke that she has agoraphobia.

            Literally, “fear of the open marketplace”. Which might as well say ‘”state fair”.

          • Does Manhattan have a state fair? Why do we need county AND state fairs? Who pays for them? Sounds like government excess.

            Next time I’m on my laptop, I’ll tell my story about visiting the local Sheep and Wool festival. Quick preview: Did you know sheep actually go “Baa-aa-aa-aa”? Like, it sounds like they articulate that. I did not know that.

          • Does Manhattan have a state fair? Is Manhattan a state?

            Why do we need county AND state fairs? ” Well, huh, might as, might as well ask why is a tree good? Why is the sunset good? Why are boobs good?”

          • Manhattan has more people than like, 38 of the states. It might a well be a state. Then we can cut off Long Island and let it float back to England, where it belongs.

            Seriously, though, are these fairs paid for publicly? That seems an interesting paradox for a libertarian. :-p

          • No politics. And, anyway, there’s a gate charge at ours, and the fairground charges rents for the various booths that show up (and these rents are reflected in the prices charged for the food/beverages). Even the entries for the various arts/crafts are charged a fee for entering into whatever contest they’re entered into.

            AND MARIBOU’S CROSS STITCH MAP OF THE KNOWN WORLD (2003? 2004?) HAS A BLUE RIBBON!!! The prize money was more than her entry fee but less than her entry fee and the cost of a ticket.

          • Pics or it didn’t happen.

            Sewing posts! C’mon, Maribou, you’re not in the Class From Hell any more…

          • Seriously, though, are these fairs paid for publicly? That seems an interesting paradox for a libertarian. :-p

            Hey, I also believe in public parks. Some things are above politics! (See how I got around that whole no politics thingy?)

          • Then we can cut off Long Island and let it float back to England, where it belongs.

            That’s not very fair to England. Are we still mad at them for somethings they did over 200 years ago?

            [Looks at map]

            Besides, England’s way too far north for Long Island to float to. Spain or Portugal seem like a more appropriate destination. Maybe we could offer to solve all of Spain’s debt problems if they’ll annex Long Island. That seems like a pretty good deal for us.

          • oh ho ho meadowlands fair! a little piece of the jersey shore in a parking lot. never went to the state fair, though.

          • Patrick, I have no idea what I would write about in a sewing post. It’s the one activity I do specifically because it turns off almost all of my brain (leaving only the counting bit, the aesthetic appreciation bit, and the listening to someone read a story out loud bit). So any sewing posts would be something like “Here is a picture of a half-formed blob. Aren’t the colors purty? I listened to 2 hours of book X.” 😀

  4. Tis the Hanley’s anniversary weekend. We won’t be online.

  5. Looking forward to gaming Saturday. Otherwise planning on a lot of reading and sleeping. Things are starting to kick into (higher) gear at work. Oh, I also need to clean up the library (er, our home library, not my workplace). It’s still sort of trashed from last year’s CLASS OF DOOM, and the new classes (hopefully not of doom) start in a little over a week….

  6. Nats and Mets this weekend, I grew up around Washington, roommate grew up around New York, so we’re going with our respective hats.

  7. Back from Montana late last night. The nephew and sister are swinging by at lunchtime for a last shot at their favorite Mexican place in Pasadena before he heads off to San Jose State tomorrow morning (This. Is. SPARTA!)

    I have to unpack the car-top carrier and clean the car and get the house back in “people live here” state and try to deal with the fact that it’s 20 degrees warmer here than where I was the day before yesterday.

  8. Hm. I’m taking a course this semester that involves some gaming stuff and the prof opened it up today. So that may be what I’m doing this weekend, starting class early. It actually looks…. fun? *can’t quite believe her eyes*

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