The 111th Congress came back to work on January 6, 2009 after a grueling two months off. They took a week off after an exhausting Inauguration week until February 7. Then went flat out for two weeks until taking a well-deserved week off for Presidents' day.

They worked pretty much all the way through March, and then took from April 6 until April 17 off so that Christians, Jews and Wikkans could all celebrate their Spring holidays.

For Memorial Day - which for most of us is a Monday holiday, our hard-working Members of Congress turned it into a full week off for their May holiday. And, of course, that pesky July 4th falling on a Saturday meant they simply had to turn another three-day weekend into a full week off, bailing out of Washington on June 28 and not coming back to work until July 6.

The Congress will break a sweat through the rest of July before declaring a much-needed recess on Friday July 31 and not returning to the daily grind until September 7.

Here's the fun part. The Congress, with no sense of embarrassment whatsoever, has on its official calendar that the "Target Adjournment" date as � October 30.

That would give them all of November and all of December off.

Pretty good job, seems to me.

Mullfoto of the Day

Note the price-per-gallon at the bottom. Note that I pumped 10 gallons (within a thousanth of a gallon) and note that the total price was exactly ten times the price-per-gallon.

Next week: The eight times table.

Catchy Caption of the Day

Actual Caption:

U.S. President Barack Obama (C) and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) take their places with junior G8 delegates for a family photo at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, July 9, 2009.

Bill Clinton ... eat your heart out.

REUTERS/Jason Reed