Work will be easy today and tomorrow (in theory, anyway). No one will be there! Kind of like two free vacation days without being charged for using them.
And it is "casual day" all week, so I can go in jeans and a t-shirt.
When in the course of human events it becomes neccessary for one people TO BEAT THE LIVING HELL OUT OF ONE GUY LIVING ACROSS THE OCEAN, a certain respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the gratuitious beating.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that p p man is endowed with an unhealthy obsession with the United States of America bordering on penis envy -- and, you know, that's pretty much it, so let's forget the laundry list of grievances, keep our tongues firmly in cheek, and move right on to the rockets red glare. Ba-Boom!