Results tagged “threedayweekend”

...If you work for a select few state agencies. This week, the Olympia offices of three state departments are moving to four-day workweeks in an attempt to save energy; participating are the State Department of Community Trade and Economic Development, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Archaeology and History Preservation. After a trial run with Fridays off for these offices, the government will reassess to see if the program saves enough energy to make it a worthwhile policy for other state-run offices to adopt. If the new schedule isn't effective at energy conservation, the folks in the guinea-pig offices probably won't be too angry about getting the chance to enjoy a few months of three-day weekends.

Apparently the three-day-weekend wasn't quite long enough for some pranksters in Ridgefield, Washington. School in Ridgefield was delayed for two hours this morning because someone had let the air out of the tires of the school district's entire fleet of buses. The pranksters were quite polite—not slashing the 22 buses' tires, but simply stealing the valve stems.

So much for feeling all wonderful and relaxed after getting out of the city and off the computer for the three-day weekend. This is what greeted Seattlest at the 93 mile marker when we left The Gorge early "to miss concert traffic:"

1. Seward Park - This is where we spent last Saturday, lying on the grass, reading. There were plenty of families there already celebrating the sun, barbecuing, playing volleyball. Tons of cutie pie kids running in and out of the water.