Today is Alaska Day. It's a state holiday and our offices are closed. I've opted to work so I can use the floating holiday to take off the day after Thanksgiving when our daycare will be closed.

I got an email from the Governor yesterday telling me what Alaska Day is. Back in 1867, the Russians closed the deal with us on the sale of this Great Land on October 18th. The Russian flag was lowered over Sitka and the American flag was raised. This was of course all facilitated by William Seward in what would be referred to as Seward's folly... $7.2 million for that giant hunk of ice? What are you thinking, man? In my opinion, that was a perfect example of the term "foresight". In his honor, they named a cruise ship dock with a little town attached to it after him.