As I promised, I’m jumping back in full tilt this week here at Eventualism. To prove my intentions are fairly steadfast, I am writing and posting this on what is a day off for many across my fair land: Victoria Day. I live in Victoria which makes this doubly impressive.
Since this is a long weekend, there are a ton of things I could be doing in and around my community. Instead, I tap away at a keyboard, not only due to my pledge to all of my budding Eventualists – like yourself – but also because I do not wish to run into any of those participating in the Highlander Games. Why the are called the Highlander Games is a mystery to me…for there is really only one game a Highlander plays.
Of course, I refer to EndGame.
Truth be told, I’ve not seen much evidence of any beheading taking place as of yet; my local news merely has televised footage of caber tossing and incessant bagpiping. But these immortals are a crafty sort – they have all the time in the world to distract us from what is really going on. In the end anyone who truly understands the plight of the Highlanders know that there can be only one.
Let me tell you, as of now, there are at least 46 still here. I have heard that Mario Van Peebles is one of them. My money is on him – after all, he’s baadasssss!
It’s also the former Queen’s birthday…and I mean really former because she’s been dead for a long time. Where I was born (Hamilton, ON – where I believe Christopher Mintz-Plasse has a summer home) we called this weekend the “May Two-Four” – and the day fittingly falls on the 24th this year. That means people will get twice as drunk to celebrate, er, something.
There are also the most eventual of processions taking place across the country – parades. I will watch my local one on CHEK TV because the view is better and the beer is available. Plus, I can pause the TiVo to make it even more eventual than it already is.
On that note, I bid everyone in the Commonwealth a Happy Victoria Day if, in fact, you celebrate it.
If not, drink up regardless. You have cause for another celebration entirely.
