And people generally have the day off for the long weekend to recuperate from over-indulging and, well, shop.
Mom and Dad have recklessly elected to take off for the weekend.
The participants, who all have full-time jobs of their own, may have sacrificed their days off for a sleepless weekend of coding, but no one had to sacrifice being a New Orleanian.
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Large parts of the countryside are out of bounds to the public this weekend, several tourist attractions have imposed restrictions on visitors and one racecourse has called off a meeting.
With the first full weekend of NFL football kicking off, Sony Computer Entertainment America and DirecTV have once again partnered to bring PlayStation 3 gamers exclusive access to all of the action around the league.
"I could have taken that and been gone and be sitting with my feet up in Brighton and maybe this weekend fly off to Vegas to my brother-in-law's for a couple of weeks and wonder how Aberdeen were getting on back home, " he said.
If you believe the pollsters, the vote this weekend will lead to a run-off on May 5th between two candidates who between them have won just two-fifths of the vote in a first round for which fewer than 70% of the electorate bothered to turn out.
The FN is thought to have qualified for run-off votes in nearly 400 cantons - France's smallest administrative units - next weekend.
The endorsement is said to have been in the works for several weeks, although sources say Bradley signed off on the move only last weekend.
And then I am going to take the weekend off and then I may start thinking about all the various offers and requests and ideas that have come my way.
The Egyptian government appears to have cut off web and mobile phone access to much, if not most of its citizens ahead of a weekend of mass demonstrations against Hosni Mubarak.
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