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Post by mank on Apr 2, 2024 6:14:10 GMT -5
I was looking at my SpongeBob wall calendar and I noticed that yesterday was Easter Monday in Canada. Does anyone know what Easter Monday is?
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Post by Jim on Apr 2, 2024 6:45:08 GMT -5
I find it amusing that as much as I geek out about cars, I just don't get the same reaction with bikes. I don't care about the specs. I just want to ride. My $1000 25 year old Honda rides just fine. I would like an upgrade but it's not a priority.
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Post by MalcolmR on Apr 2, 2024 7:49:50 GMT -5
I was looking at my SpongeBob wall calendar and I noticed that yesterday was Easter Monday in Canada. Does anyone know what Easter Monday is? It was Easter Monday over here too. We take our religious holidays seriously, so we have a complete Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon break for Easter.
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Post by martycanuck on Apr 2, 2024 8:27:12 GMT -5
I was looking at my SpongeBob wall calendar and I noticed that yesterday was Easter Monday in Canada. Does anyone know what Easter Monday is? Government, banks and schools only holiday. Most of us work anyway and most things are open. It is not a statutory holiday. Awkward for working parents with young kids in school mostly.
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Post by mank on Apr 2, 2024 8:59:24 GMT -5
I was looking at my SpongeBob wall calendar and I noticed that yesterday was Easter Monday in Canada. Does anyone know what Easter Monday is? It was Easter Monday over here too. We take our religious holidays seriously, so we have a complete Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon break for Easter. I remember years ago, approximately 35 years ago, we used to be off for Good Friday when I worked at Westinghouse. That hasn't been a paid holiday at all for years and years now. I also remember stores would close between noon and three pm, the hours Jesus was on the cross. That no longer happens either. I also remember when I was a kid we would sit in our house between those hours and pray the rosary. I never heard of Easter Monday but, being Roman Catholic I was aware of Holy Week and obviously Easter.
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Post by martycanuck on Apr 2, 2024 12:00:34 GMT -5
It was Easter Monday over here too. We take our religious holidays seriously, so we have a complete Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon break for Easter. I remember years ago, approximately 35 years ago, we used to be off for Good Friday when I worked at Westinghouse. That hasn't been a paid holiday at all for years and years now. I also remember stores would close between noon and three pm, the hours Jesus was on the cross. That no longer happens either. I also remember when I was a kid we would sit in our house between those hours and pray the rosary. I never heard of Easter Monday but, being Roman Catholic I was aware of Holy Week and obviously Easter. You don’t get Good Friday off? We close our factory in NY State on Good Friday. Maybe it isn’t a stat though. Not sure. But it is in Canada anyway. Think that 3 hours on the cross is a “modernized” version of events perhaps? First thing I googled says the book about him says it took 6. Maybe they didn’t have good watches back then?
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Post by MalcolmR on Apr 2, 2024 12:45:11 GMT -5
Think that 3 hours on the cross is a “modernized” version of events perhaps? First thing I googled says the book about him says it took 6. Maybe they didn’t have good watches back then? You have to remember that most of the books written about him were written by people who weren't actually there. The three-hour devotion has been part of western Christianity for centuries. And three hours is seen as a bit much these days. Certainly in our church you are only expected to stay for one of the hours.
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Post by Juli on Apr 2, 2024 13:48:54 GMT -5
I think Easter Monday as a holiday became a thing because the actual holiday was on a day that most workers had off, anyhow, so businesses took the next day off. Sort of like when a date-specific holiday (Like New Year, Christmas, Independence Day in the US, etc.) falls on a Saturday or Sunday.
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Post by Jeannette on Apr 2, 2024 14:11:22 GMT -5
I have never worked for a company that gave Good Friday off
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Post by frodi on Apr 2, 2024 16:28:40 GMT -5
Good Friday here is a bank holiday but not a public holiday. Banks and the courts are closed as well as most govt offices. Most retail used to be shut by 3pm to allow staff attend the stations of the cross. Because schools are closed and just about everything else is shut it's become a lazy sort of day. The surgeries around here are closed by 1pm so I close the pharmacy for the afternoon. No point hanging around doing nothing. Easter Monday is a public holiday which is probably a hangover from British rule.
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Post by frodi on Apr 3, 2024 15:58:25 GMT -5
I'm outta here. Friday morning we're flying to Liepzig via Berlin to visit Grainne. I won't have time to check in tomorrow so I'll leave a 20 sopt behind the bar and you can have a glass of water each on me. See ya Tuesday.
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Post by Juli on Apr 3, 2024 17:16:34 GMT -5
I have never worked for a company that gave Good Friday off The local businesses I remember observing Good Friday were smaller, and the owners were Catholic and/or active in the community Lenten season program. The hardware store usually closed at noon or 1 on the day before holiday weekends. Funnily, most Sundays they opened at 1:00, to give everyone time to go to church and have dinner before working on a project. Thinking of how a small business owner could apply his religious traditions to his business... In Columbus, Ohio, there was a store called Schottenstein's. The owners were Jewish, and observed Jewish traditions and holidays. The store closed by 4:00 on Friday evenings in the winter to reopen on Sunday morning, and back in the '80s it was the only store open on Easter Sunday or Christmas.
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Post by martycanuck on Apr 4, 2024 6:22:34 GMT -5
I’m getting “Page won’t load” error screens on blogs and certain threads?
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Post by mank on Apr 4, 2024 8:06:15 GMT -5
I’m getting “Page won’t load” error screens on blogs and certain threads? Things are working fine on my end.
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Post by MalcolmR on Apr 4, 2024 8:38:27 GMT -5
And mine.
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Post by martycanuck on Apr 4, 2024 14:08:23 GMT -5
Seems OK now. Weird. That was at the hotel mind you so maybe it was their filters?
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Post by Jeannette on Apr 4, 2024 14:16:37 GMT -5
I was getting it for a bit also
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Post by frodi on Apr 4, 2024 17:07:39 GMT -5
Flying visit, bags are packed and all clean and scrubbed up. Early start tomorrow,
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Post by Jeannette on Apr 5, 2024 6:11:28 GMT -5
Anybody here in the path for the Eclipse? I'm at about 99% coverage, but taking 1/2 day to drive down to Toledo to see the whole thing.
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Post by martycanuck on Apr 5, 2024 6:41:56 GMT -5
Anybody here in the path for the Eclipse? I'm at about 99% coverage, but taking 1/2 day to drive down to Toledo to see the whole thing. Right now I’m dead center of the eclipse path in Watertown, NY. But I’ll be nowhere near here on Monday. This town of 25,000 expecting 200,000 visitors for it. It will be a mad house.
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Post by Jim on Apr 5, 2024 7:35:04 GMT -5
One map I saw said I'll be at about 98% coverage. Schools are dismissing early because of it. I don't plan on paying attention to it. Watching the panic is far more entertaining.
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Post by Jeannette on Apr 5, 2024 14:02:45 GMT -5
that made me chuckle Jim.
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Post by Juli on Apr 5, 2024 22:54:48 GMT -5
Home is 97.52%, but I'll be working in the office, where it'll be 97.19%. My lunch is at the beginning of the event, I'm debating whether I want to go outside for my lunch and see what I can see. I do not have the viewing glasses, but a pinhole "camera" could work.
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Post by MalcolmR on Apr 6, 2024 7:41:29 GMT -5
According to the maps, I am exactly on the border of 0-1%, but it's going to be cloudy anyway.
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Post by Gimpy on Apr 6, 2024 10:01:46 GMT -5
98% for me and I'll be helping a friend at the time. The last one I did travel and got 100%. Travel stories were rampant. I came home the following day and interstate traffic was still heavy in places.
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Post by mank on Apr 6, 2024 21:00:32 GMT -5
In Dallas where my other coworkers live and work it is supposed to be cloudy during the eclipse. The same holds true for me us in our Pittsburgh office and in Erie two hours north of us it will be cloudy there too. Erie is in the totality path as well as Dallas but both areas might not see a thing other than darkness. Pittsburgh is not in the totality path but supposedly from my area we will be able to see quite a bit of the solar eclipse.
Personally, I don't really care nor will I even make an attempt to look at it. I will be working in my office during the eclipse at 3:15 EDT.
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Post by Rob on Apr 6, 2024 23:19:41 GMT -5
Welcome back to Rob's Bar. Last time, we conducted an experiment and found that when you mix Miller Lite and Coors Light together in one big beer mug, you will, in fact, summon Kid Rock. Tonight, we're gonna find out what happens when you mix Miller Lite, Coors Light and Bud Light together in one... big... beer mug.
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Post by Jeannette on Apr 9, 2024 6:58:48 GMT -5
I have to say it was pretty cool to see a total eclipse. It wasn't night-time dark but just a weirdly indigo dark. I'm glad we went.
The drive down sucked donkey balls, 2 hours to go 40 miles.
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Post by Jim on Apr 9, 2024 7:46:39 GMT -5
Clouds rolled in here 20 minutes before the show started.
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Post by Rob on Apr 9, 2024 14:14:16 GMT -5
I sat on the front porch for the eclipse. The sky was clear and the day was strangely dim. I was afraid to look up at the sun, though.
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