This weekend has serious potential:

I'm looking forward to this weekend for many reasons other than the obvious awesomeness that is two days where I don't have to come in to work:

1. Friday night happy hour: They don't happen every week anymore, but today was somebody's last day so we have a good excuse to go celebrate their freedom with them.
2. "Mean Streets" should be arriving from Netflix today: Normally a new arrival from Netflix would be just mark the occassion of another regular day, but after happy hour on Fridays I'm always ready to crash on the couch with a movie and this movie is supposedly Scorcese's first great film, so I'm more excited than usual.
3. Red Bull Flugtag tomorrow at the inner harbor: I'm still kicking myself for not going when it was in Chicago in 2003 and since it's only 12 blocks from my apartment, there's no way I'm skipping this time. I'm setting the over/under on how many different strains of gonorrhea are contracted from the water in the inner harbor by the crazies who jump in at 4. Seriously, there's a reason other than "boat-traffic" that they don't let people swim there.
4. Steelers game on CBS here on Sunday: It's rare in Baltimore for a 1pm Steelers game to be televised. This is made all the more pleasant by the fact that the Ravens have a bye week this week... that way, it's almost like they don't exist for a couple of days (in a perfect world).
5. World Series: After all, this is still America.

Now, let's get out there and have a great weekend!