Seriously, there is NOTHING going on this week, so if you’ve got some mental health days saved up, take ‘em. If you live the mental health life like I do, carry on.
While you’re doing that, I’ll prepare some stories on Saturday’s water main break in East Silver Spring, an ethical dilemma at Whole Foods Market, and this week’s Burger Quest review.
Let’s do this.
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School starts for MoCo — I think many will be busy prepping for that. Me? I’m looking forward to them going back so I get a turn on the swings at Jesup Blair Park again.
According to the MCPS website, school starts next Monday.
Ah, left the word “soon” off after MoCo.
I loved swings well into adulthood, but not the strap kind. If they had hard rubber seats I would swing, too. I read that somewhere in Europe (Finland or Denmark) playgounds for all ages were catching on. Sounds good to me!
Hey, our most famous author is getting even more famous this week.
http://www.slate.com/id/2226142?yahoo=y
This story sez President Obama chose a George Pelecanos novel as one of his vacation reading selections.
Yeah, LuvMH, we need “adult swing” time just like we have adult swim at the pool. Some of those kids are jkust swing hogs and NEVER get off – LOL.
This is no ethical dilemma. This is Whole Foods’ CEO opening his big mouth before he thought about the business consequences. His comment was especially surprising, given the image of Whole Foods and the demographic that frequents its stores. I’m no WF girl (I prefer Harris Teeter to be quite honest) and I’m all for freedom of speech, but this was an idiotic move on this guy’s part (totally disregarding whatever ethical dilemmas people may think exist). I’m interested in seeing if and to what degree sales suffer.
Editor’s note: It’s an ethical dilemma for some. For you and I, it doesn’t mean jack shit. Either way, it’s getting a write-up.
And your screen name from this point forward is “Babs”. — JD (Aug 25, 2009)
Babs!?…I can deal with Babs…as long as I can choose the urban dictionary definition that corresponds to my name…some of those definitions are pretty awful!
@kathyJ: I agree. I love love love swinging. I swing @ the Sligo-Dennis park. Such fun it is.