I generally try and get as faraway from 5/5 festivities as possible - excuses to get drunk not wanted in my world

No, but I celebrated it when I was teaching at a university in Hermosillo, MX in 2001.

Today it rained, but it's so nice that we took a walk in the rain. Lots to see in the countryside. We live in a very rural area with farms, horses, cattle, donkeys, goats and everybody raises chickens.

I will celebrate Cinco de Mayo by ordering a Mexican Dinner to be delivered by Grub Hub to my apartment tonight.

Before my divorce and moving to my apartment, it was a day of great inconvenience for me, since the local parade forms up right in the neighborhood where I lived and they would line up on my street, blocking my driveway. I would have to yell at them to let me out so I could go to work. Or else I would have to wake up early and park on the street so I didn't get blocked in.

Sounds great ... no church day ... cerebrating the coming of summer soon, "Cinco de Mayo" with my friends from Mexico and USA! Chinese & Mexican Buffet at the same time while doing some early gardening and later going straight up to the mountains enjoying nature and the waterfalls at Yosemite National Park .... 1 1/2 hours away from Fresno, California now!