_quick shots on MLK day!

1. monitor just got here.

2. off to walmart/target in a few for some more shts i need to make my place liveable.

3. i just found a walmart gift card i was gi ven last year for an employee appreciation day. $35 on that hoe!

i aint even know son.

_the weekend haps.

busy, long weekend ahead.

before i get into any of that, thought – i have to say that this is officially the longest morning ever. good god. i’ve been watching 11am slowly dissipate for what seems like the last 4 hours.
couple that with the fact that i have like, no money, and am therefore starving for some sort of sustenance. minutes seem like days til this free pizza party @ 12.

but yeah, busy weekend.

1st order of business is to go ahead, stop being a cheap bastid and FINISH THE GOTDAMN STUDIO. like, i can’t even touch the surface of how my refusal to devote the dollars necessary to finish off that room has completely halted my hustle this year. in fact, the death of the grind trails way back into last year, for various reasons, and the time for games has come and gone. it hurts watching your paycheck bottom out so quickly, but what can you do.

i gotta pay to play.

so that new monitor i’ve been needing forever and a day is gonna get ordered tomorrow. hope to have it by monday. saw a desk on craigslist that will fit my use just right; now it just needs to be available. i hope to hear from it’s owner before the weekend. i’ma try to get by with a regular chair until i feel like committing  $ for a nice executive chair like the one i threw away when i moved out of my last apartment (long story).

if i had ample cash left over, i’d get these. hardly a necessity though, at this point at least; i’ve made it this far in the game without em.

this is all just to basically make my room functional. as it stands now there’s a crapload of equipment sitting on the floor, sundry wires and cabling, waiting for me to make sense of it.

saturday, i’m going to see my mans an ‘nem at this:

i dunno if that’s displaying right; it’s prolly not. anyway.

then, same night, i’ll route over to this ’cause it’s free and i like malibu.

i’m also supposed to help my day haul some stuff. he’s headed to south carolina to drop some things off for my grandparents. i really miss them and i kinda wanna go. but, he’s taking his truck, mom’s got shotgun, and i got a ton of things to do here.

can’t help feeling like i’m running out of time on that front, though.

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here’s an interesting bit of information from wikipedia regarding opposition to MLK day being recognized as a holiday across the nation.

Reluctance to observe day

In addition to Reagan, opposition to the bill was led by Senator Jesse Helms, who questioned whether King was important enough to receive such an honor. He was also critical of King’s opposition to the Vietnam War, and accused King of having Communist connections.

On January 17, 2000, for the first time, Martin Luther King Day was officially observed in all 50 states.^[4] Prior to that New Hampshire and Arizona did not observe the day. Throughout the 1990s this was heavily criticized. After a 1992 proposition to recognize the holiday in Arizona did not pass, the NFL boycotted hosting Super Bowl XXVII at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe.^[5] The hip-hop group Public Enemy recorded a song titled “By The Time I Get To Arizona”, on their 1991 album, Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black, in which they describe assassinating Arizona Governor Fife Symington III, for his opposition to the holiday.

On May 2, 2000, South Carolina governor Jim Hodges signed a bill to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday an official state holiday. South Carolina is the last state to recognize the day as a paid holiday for all state employees. Prior to this, employees could choose between celebrating Martin Luther King Day or one of three confederate holidays.

While all states now observe the holiday, some did not name the day after King.

In Utah the holiday was known as “Human Rights Day”, until the year 2000 when the Utah State Legislature voted to change the name of the holiday from Human Rights Day to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. In that same year Governor Michael O. Leavitt signed the bill officially naming the holiday “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.”

In Virginia, the holiday was added on to Lee-Jackson Day, a day meant to honor Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and became Lee-Jackson-King Day. The incongruous nature of the holiday, which simultaneously celebrated the lives of Confederate Army generals and a civil rights icon, did not escape the notice of Virginia lawmakers. In 2000, a Martin Luther King Day was established in Virginia.

In Arizona and New Hampshire, Martin Luther King Day is known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Day.

Although the day is a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually not observed by small private companies except for banks. Some large corporations close their operations (more so than on Veterans Day or Columbus Day, which are also federal holidays, but less so than on holidays such as Memorial Day or Labor Day when virtually all corporations are closed), but small shops, restaurants, and grocery stores tend to remain open. Overall, in 2007, 33% of employers gave employees the day off, while 33% of large employers over 1,000 and 32% of smaller employers gave time off. The observance is most popular amongst nonprofit organizations and least popular among factories and manufacturers.The reasons for this have varied, ranging from the recent addition of the holiday (each year more businesses are closed than the year before, though often those that do choose to close “make it up” by no longer closing for Presidents Day) to its occurrence just two weeks after the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, when many businesses are closed for part of or sometimes all of the week. Additionally, many schools and places of higher education are closed for classes; others remain open but may hold seminars or celebrations of Dr. King’s message.

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ha!

i knew there was some, like in Arizona.  but wow. LEE-JACKSON-KING DAY?! lmao wtf? that’s a borderline insult.

smh.

anyway. lemme go see if this pizza came through or not.

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