5th July

Next week is Independence Day - 4th July - which this year lies on a Thursday.  In a surprising, and surprisingly generous, move our new CEO has also declared Friday 5th July a company holiday.  So now we have a long weekend to look forward to - which is nice!  As far as I'm aware, this is unprecedented - it's never happened before in all my time in the US.  And giving all the employees an extra day's holiday can't be cheap for the company.  I approve.  Maybe our new CEO actually cares about his employees.  My only regret is that he only made the announcement this week, far too late to book and make plans to go away somewhere for the weekend.