A meme for Friday
"So then," says the djinn as it erupts from your shampoo bottle, "You look pretty stressed, and I'm thinking you need a bit of slack." It whips out a magic visa card and tucks it underneath your bar of soap while you're shrieking and trying to cover your bits. "You can have this all weekend," it says. "There's no spending limit, and you'll never see a bill, but at noon on Monday, it's going up in smoke. So have fun, and remember: cash-advance probably won't cover bail." Then it pinches you on the bum and disappears.

So the operative question is this:
Name five things you're going to do before Monday.
Instead of doing the expected Good Works, I think I'll try for maximum slack. First, I'd call in from work, and arrange to have Saturday and Sunday off too, because an opportunity like this comes along generally not at all, so ... time. Yes.

1. Buy a car. A good, new car. Fully loaded with options. Hybrid, if you please. Price no object. I'm not going to be stupid and get a gas-guzzler, because I'll have to pay for fuel myself once this card disappears. I'm working under a time limit here, and I'm really going to need the most out of my weekend to maximize the amount I can leverage this economic spiffiness. ( And the insanity begins... )
   
   
   I feel a little jolt, and when I open up my wallet, gold dust pours out from where the magic Visa had been, accompanied by a billow of multicolored smoke. "Uh-oh, I let the magic smoke out!" I giggle, and that's when the smoke alarm on the dining room wall starts going off...
   
   Never a dull moment, I tell you. I'm going to need my three days off to recover from my weekend before going back to the old grind...