Defenestrating Thoughts from the Bivouac

Today’s Martin Luther King, Jr. day. And we honor Dr. King by getting to stay home from work. :-) Google gives us this federal holiday off, while Microsoft didn’t. At Microsoft, we’d have to use one of our “floating holidays” if we want to stay home. So I get a nice 3 day weekend, while Crissy, coming off 2 snow days, gets a 5 day weekend!

When reading the Wikipedia article on Dr. King, I learned that he is one of only 4 individuals to have a federal holiday (the other 3 being Jesus, Washington, and Columbus). I thought that instead of Washington’s birthday we celebrated “Presidents’ Day”, but it turns out the official holiday is Washington’s birthday. He was born on Feb 22, but since, apparently, having a 3 day weekend is more important than honoring the actual day, we celebrate on the 3rd Monday of February.