Friendly Fire

My Grandma Smith would say (or at least I think I remember her saying) “The paper holds still and you can write anything you want on it.”

Memorial Day, 2024

This post isn’t about Memorial Day as Memorial Day, either as the current iteration of Decoration Day (which I remember as taking place on May 30th) to honor those who fell in the American Civil War and subsequent wars, or about Memorial Day as a Federal long-weekend holiday. There’s certainly lots to say about the first, and in time I may well have plenty to say, but not today. And regarding the long-weekend holiday, I was a self-employed consultant for so long that I used to lost track of those Mondays off (the self-employed don’t really get days off) and was always suggesting that we next meet on such-and-such a date to the shock and amusement of the Feds that I worked with, “But that’s such-and-such a Day!”